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Parent and peer relation to prosocial behavior and aggression study introduction

  • Prosocial behavior and aggression are linked in that people who engage in less prosocial behavior are also very aggressive.
  • Prosocial behavior-”voluntary behavior aimed at benefiting others. Such behavior includes sharing, caring, and helping”
  • Prosocial behavior helps to facilitate positive relationships amongst people, “promote[s] popularity among peers and help[s] people to trust their own skills and positive emotions”
  • Human aggression-”any behavior that is directed toward another individual that is carried out with the immediate intent to cause harm. In addition, the perpetrator must believe that the behavior will harm the target, and that the target is motivated to avoid the behavior”
  • Aggressive behavior severely harms social relationships
  • Prosocial behavior is seen as a protective factor in developing aggressive tendencies
  • Parenting styles-”the emotional atmospheres shaped by parental attitudes during the process of children socialization”-it includes warmth and control Psychosocial adjustment is greater in families that communicate clearly and have rules
  • "Parental warmth can be defined as the presence of positive affect, responsiveness, support and good communication in parent-child relationships, and encouragement of autonomy of the children based on discipline
  • Two different kinds of control-behavioral and psychological
  • Authoritarian parenting style is associated with aggression
  • This study analyzes mother and father’s parenting styles (warmth and control) on attachment on prosocial behavior and aggression in adolescence
  • Two models-one that analyzes the mother’s parenting style and one that analyzes the father’s parenting style
  • Expect that parental warmth would be positively associated with peer attachment and parental control would be negatively associated with it
  • Expect that peer attachment and parental warmth would both be positively correlated with prosocial behavior and negatively associated with aggression
  • Expect that strict control would be negatively associated with aggression

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Updated 2021-04-28

Contributors are:

Jessica Steir
Jessica Steir
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Who are from:

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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