Resilience is a key construct to understand when athletes continue perform optimally, or they break down. Although there consensus that resilience can be conceptualized as dynamic process, it remains an open question whether studying such process on group level adequately represents the individuals within given sample. As first step answer this question, we designed diary study test statistics ...

This literature review identified five articles to show the information about protective factors that can help women victims of intimate partner violence attain a state resilience. A systematic studies in resilience violence. With inclusion and exclusion criteria; English language peer-reviewed articles; focusing on IPV; conducted participants. The findings indicated most mentioned helping IPV ...

Research on the topic of resilience and potentially beneficial applications within the schools is minimal. With the characteristic of resilience being more accurately understood as a more commonly carried trait rather than being something of a phenomenon, school professionals may consider a strengths-based, resilience framework when dealing with the array of perceived “problems” that can presen...

Introduction There were 27 quality studies on looked after children as determined by the project categorisation. Studies included children who were placed with non-related foster parents as well as those in kinship care; these are currently the placements of choice in Anglophone jurisdictions (Ainsworth and Thoburn 2014). Surveys have compared children’s material resources in different forms of...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have simultaneously examined the influence of multiple domains of risk and protective factors for smoking among African Americans. This study identified individual-peer, family, school, and community risk and protective factors that predict early cigarette use among African American adolescents. METHODS Data from 1,056 African American 8th and 10th graders who complet...

This research program explored links among prosocial motives, empathy, and helping behavior. Preliminary work found significant relations among components of self-reported empathy and personality (N = 223). In Study 1, the authors examined the generality of prosocial behavior across situations and group memberships of victims (N = 622). In Study 2, empathic focus and the victim's outgroup statu...

Within the domain of prosocial behavior, the most intense debate centers on the degree to which behavior is the result of an altruistic personality in combination with situational, cultural, gender, and contextual factors. In the recent years, attempts to narrow the parameters of this discussion have focused on subsets of prosocial behavior such as: altruism versus self-interest, helping behavi...

This study examined the correlates and predictors of prosocial behavior among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. A sample of 518 high school students responded to a questionnaire containing measures of antisocial and prosocial behavior, prosocial norms, pragmatic values, moral reasoning, and empathy. Preliminary analyses showed that there were gender differences in some of the measures. While co...

EFFECTS OF A POSITIVE PEER REPORTING INTERVENTION ON PROSOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN A GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM by Camela Y. Johnson Methods for promoting prosocial behavior in educational settings are many and varied. This literature review presents a context for defining and understanding prosocial behavior, including comparisons and contrasts with other behavioral concepts and terms. Understand...