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15 - Temperament and Prosocial Behavior

from Part II - Antecedents and Mechanisms of Prosociality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

By
Deborah J. Laible ,
Afra E. Agalar ,
Clare Van Norden  and
Alysia Cruz
Edited by
Tina Malti  and
Maayan Davidov
Tina Malti
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Maayan Davidov
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Summary

In this chapter, we review the work that has been done on children’s temperament and prosocial behavior in childhood and adolescence, highlighting the importance of taking a nuanced and multidimensional approach to examining the links between temperament and children’s prosocial behavior. Thus, in addition to examining the higher-order temperamental factors (such as negative emotionality), we also examine how the specific dimensions of temperament (e.g., anger proneness) predict different types of prosocial behaviors (e.g., sharing). Finally, we consider how the links between prosocial behaviors and temperament are likely complicated by the fact that temperamental variables interact both with each other and with environmental factors, such as parenting, to predict different types of prosocial behaviors.

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temperamentindividual differencesprosocial behaviornegative emotionalityregulationsociabilityapproach
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The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality
Development, Mechanisms, Promotion
 , pp. 300 - 319
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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