itemprop=description content=The longitudinal association between mental health symptoms and prosocial behavior.
By Neha MathurOct 9 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent article published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development, researchers examined the longitudinal association between mental health symptoms and prosocial behavior, i.e., behaviors intended to benefit others, such as sharing, showing empathy, and donating. They also explored the effects of parent-child relationships from early childhood to late adolescence on this association.
Preliminary empirical evidence suggested a directional relationship between mental health symptoms and prosociality, e.g., higher prosociality predicts lower mental health symptoms . They used the composite scores per scale as indicators. In addition, the team used the Straus Tactics Conflict scale and Pianta scale to measure physical/psychological maltreatment and parent-child closeness and conflict, respectively.
Interestingly, only within-person occasion-specific changes in externalizing mental health symptoms predicted lower prosociality, especially from middle childhood onwards.
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