TY  - JOUR
A1  - Busching, Robert
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - With a little help from their peers
BT  - the impact of classmates on
JF  - Journal of youth and adolescence : a multidisciplinary research publication
N2  - Peer groups are critical socialization agents for the development of social behavior in adolescence, but studies examining peer-group effects on individuals' prosocial behavior are scarce. Using a two-wave, multilevel data set (N = 16,893, 8481 male; 8412 female; mean age at Time 1: 14.0 years) from 1308 classes in 252 secondary schools in Germany, main effects of the classroom level of prosocial behavior, cross-level interactions between the classroom and the individual levels of prosocial behavior at Time 1, and the moderating role of gender were examined. The results showed that adolescents in classrooms with high collective levels of prosocial behavior at Time 1 reported more prosocial behavior at Time 2, about two years later, reflecting a class-level main effect. A significant cross-level interaction indicated that a high classroom level of prosocial behavior particularly affected individuals with lower levels of prosocial behavior at Time 1. The influence of same-gender peers was larger compared with opposite-gender peers. The findings are discussed with respect to social learning mechanisms in the development of prosocial behavior and their implications for interventions to promote prosocial behavior.
KW  - prosocial behavior
KW  - adolescence
KW  - development
KW  - gender
KW  - longitudinal
KW  - multilevel
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01260-8
SN  - 0047-2891
SN  - 1573-6601
VL  - 49
IS  - 9
SP  - 1849
EP  - 1863
PB  - Springer Science
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prot, Sara
A1  - Gentile, Douglas A.
A1  - Anderson, Craig A.
A1  - Suzuki, Kanae
A1  - Swing, Edward
A1  - Lim, Kam Ming
A1  - Horiuchi, Yukiko
A1  - Jelic, Margareta
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Wei Liuqing, 
A1  - Liau, Albert K.
A1  - Khoo, Angeline
A1  - Petrescu, Poesis Diana
A1  - Sakamoto, Akira
A1  - Tajima, Sachi
A1  - Toma, Roxana Andreea
A1  - Warburton, Wayne
A1  - Zhang, Xuemin
A1  - Lam, Ben Chun Pan
T1  - Long-term relations among prosocial-media use, empathy, and prosocial behavior
JF  - Psychological science : research, theory, & application in psychology and related sciences
N2  - Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediated by empathy and was similar across cultures. Study 2 explored longitudinal relations among prosocial-video-game use, violent-video-game use, empathy, and helping in a large sample of Singaporean children and adolescents measured three times across 2 years. Path analyses showed significant longitudinal effects of prosocial- and violent-video-game use on prosocial behavior through empathy. Latent-growth-curve modeling for the 2-year period revealed that change in video-game use significantly affected change in helping, and that this relationship was mediated by change in empathy.
KW  - mass media
KW  - cross-cultural differences
KW  - social behavior
KW  - prosocial media
KW  - violent media
KW  - prosocial behavior
KW  - empathy
KW  - helping
KW  - general learning model
KW  - prediction
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613503854
SN  - 0956-7976
SN  - 1467-9280
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 358
EP  - 368
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -