Neurometabolic and functional connectivity basis of prosocial behavior in early adolescence

Prosocial Behavior during Adolescence

Prosocial behaviors are an aspect of adolescents’ positive development that has gained greater attention in the developmental literature since the 1990s. In this article, the authors review the literature pertaining to prosocial behaviors during adolescence. The authors begin by defining prosocial behaviors as prior theory and empirical studies have done. They describe antecedents to adolescent...

Selectivity in early prosocial behavior

Prosocial behavior requires expenditure of personal resources for the benefit of others, a fact that creates a "problem" when considering the evolution of prosociality. Models that address this problem have been developed, with emphasis typically placed on reciprocity. One model considers the advantages of being selective in terms of one's allocation of prosocial behavior so as to improve the c...

Early Adolescence and Prosocial/Moral Behavior II: The Role of Social and Contextual Influences

Perceived neighborhood social resources as determinants of prosocial behavior in early adolescence.

The present study aims to develop an integrative model that links neighborhood behavioral opportunities and social resources (neighborhood cohesion, neighborhood friendship and neighborhood attachment) to prosocial (sharing, helping, empathic) behavior in early adolescence, taking into account the potential mediating role of perceived support of friends. Path analysis was used to test the propo...

Early Adolescence and Prosocial/Moral Behavior I: The Role of Individual Processes