Altruistic and Egoistic Prosocial Behaviors among Orang Asli Adolescents: Its Relations to Attachments and Prosocial Value

What Will My Parents Think? Relations Among Adolescentsâ•Ž Expected Parental Reactions, Prosocial Moral Reasoning, and Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors

Measurement of Prosocial Reasoning among Chinese Adolescents

This study attempted to develop a standardized instrument for assessment of prosocial reasoning in Chinese populations. The Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM) was translated, and a two-stage study was conducted to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated instrument. The content validity, cultural relevance, and reading level of the translated instrument were evaluated by...

Long-term relations among prosocial-media use, empathy, and prosocial behavior.

Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was posit...

Toddlers' prosocial behavior: from instrumental to empathic to altruistic helping.

The study explored how the meaning of prosocial behavior changes over toddlerhood. Sixty-five 18- and 30-month-olds could help an adult in 3 contexts: instrumental (action based), empathic (emotion based), and altruistic (costly). Children at both ages helped readily in instrumental tasks. For 18-month-olds, empathic helping was significantly more difficult than instrumental helping and require...

Malaria among an Orang Asli Community

An epidemiological cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of clinical malaria among the Orang Asli population of Raub, Pahang, Malaysia. The study was conducted on a representative sample of 520 Orang Asli. Malariometric and clinical measurements were taken. The overall parasitemic rate was 24.2% (95% CI 20.7-28.1). Twenty-three point four percent (95% CI 19.5-26.9) of...