Meta-Analyses of Age and Sex Differences in Children’s and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior

Part of this work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DBS-9208375) to both authors and by a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (K02 MH00903) to Nancy Eisenberg. The authors wish to thank Pat Maszk and Sherri Souza for their help in obtaining and coding the materials for this research. Portions of this paper appear in; Eisenberg, N., & Fabes, R. A. (1998). Prosocial development. In W. Damon (Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology, Fifth Edition (Vol 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, N. Eisenberg [Ed.]). Address correspondence to Richard Fabes, Dept. of Family Resources & Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-2502, email: [email protected].  1998 by the authors. All rights reserved.