Humor Styles, Self-efficacy and Prosocial Tendencies in Middle Adolescents

Falanga, Rossella; Caroli, Maria Elvira De; Sagone, Elisabetta

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.243

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“…Likewise, past research underlined the positive effect of academic self-efficacy on academic motivation (Alivernini & Lucidi, 2011), as well. There is no equal study examining academic self-efficacy with prosocial behavior, but it is already known that general self-efficacy belief is the significant predictor of prosocial behavior (Caprara & Steca, 2005;Falanga et al, 2014). Again, both academic self-efficacy and general self-efficacy were found to be related to various psychological adjustment problems such as depressed effect of peer victimization (Thijs & Verkuyten, 2008), stress (Zajacova et al, 2005), and decreased undesirable behavior and depression (Wang, 2009).…”

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Student subjective wellbeing, school functioning, and psychological adjustment in high school adolescents: A latent variable analysis

Arslan¹,

Coşkun²

2020

2717-7564

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Well-being is a multi-faceted construct that encompasses all aspects of healthy and successful human functioning across multiple domains. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the predictive power of student subjective wellbeing on several specific adolescent school and psychological adjustment indicators: school achievement, academic satisfaction, prosocial behavior, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Participants included 223 adolescents, comprising of 54.9% girls, ranging in age from 13 to 18 years (M= 15.67, SD= 1.21). Findings from the LVPA indicated that student subjective wellbeing was significantly associated with youth school functioning and adjustment outcomes, ranging from small-to-large effect size (R2 range = .05 to .42). Student subjective wellbeing had the strongest predictive effect on prosocial behavior, followed by academic satisfaction, psychological health problems, and school achievement. With regard to the first-order models, school connectedness and joy of learning significantly predicted student academic satisfaction, prosocial behavior, and psychological adjustment problems. However, the predictive effect of these variables on student school achievement was non–significant. Educational purpose and academic efficacy were significant predictors of all adolescent outcomes. Taken together, these results suggest that student subjective wellbeing is an essential resource for improving youth academic functioning and psychological health.

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Student subjective wellbeing, school functioning, and psychological adjustment in high school adolescents: A latent variable analysis

Arslan¹,

Coşkun²

2020

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“…Future studies could deepen the relationships among prosocial behavior and moral reasoning and other psychological constructs such as moral disengagement, humor styles (as already verified by Falanga et al [28] in a sample of middle adolescents) and value priorities (see Caprara et al, [29,30]) in order to improve our knowledge on these topics in Italian context and in other developmental ages.…”

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Prosocial Behavior and Moral Reasoning in Italian Adolescents and Young Adults

Caroli¹,

Falanga²,

Sagone³

2014

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This study analyzed the relationships between the inclination to help the others and prosocial moral reasoning (PMR) in a sample of 548 Italian adolescents and young adults. We used the Italian version of Prosocial Tendencies Measure to evaluate the tendencies to adopt prosocial behaviors in different conditions (public, anonymous, and helping behavior in emotionally critical and dire situations) and the two Italian versions of Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (respectively for adolescents and adults) in order to assess the general level (composite PMR) and the five typologies of PMR (hedonistic, needs oriented, approval oriented, stereotypical, and internalized prosocial moral reasoning). Results showed that girls scored higher than boys in helping behaviors in emotionally critical and dire situations, while boys scored higher than girls in public behaviors; furthermore, young adults expressed higher levels than adolescents in anonymous behaviors while adolescents scored higher than young adults in public behaviors. In relation to prosocial moral reasoning, girls expressed higher scores than boys in composite PMR and, specifically, in internalized and hedonistic PMR, while boys showed higher levels than girls in stereotypical, needs oriented, and approval oriented PMR. Moreover, young adults reached higher levels than adolescents in composite PMR, especially in internalized and hedonistic PMR; additionally, adolescents obtained higher levels than young adults in stereotypical, needs oriented, and approval oriented PMR. Significant relationships between prosocial behavior and PMR were found: the inclination to use helping behaviors in emotionally critical and dire situations was related positively to levels of composite PMR, especially to internalized PMR, but negatively to approval oriented PMR; public behaviors were related positively to approval and needs oriented PMR, but negatively to composite PMR and, specifically to internalized PMR. Future research will analyze the effects of these dimensions on other psychological constructs such as moral disengagement and value orientations in educational context.

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“…Moreover, extraverted individuals are sociable and talkative (Barrick and Mount, 1991), they have high self-efficacy in dealing with interpersonal relationships and engage in social interactions (Di Giunta et al, 2010). This belief contributes not only to positive social behaviors in real life (Caprara and Steca, 2005;Falanga et al, 2014), but also to social engagement in cyberspace (Khang and Jeong, 2016).…”

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Bridging Personality and Online Prosocial Behavior: The Roles of Empathy, Moral Identity, and Social Self-Efficacy

Leng

Guo

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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Personality has been considered as important influential factors of prosocial behavior (PB). This study aims to investigate whether the personality-PB association revealed in the real world is applicable to cyberspace. Researchers further considered moral identity (MI), empathy, and social self-efficacy as mediators accounting for the association of personality and online prosocial behavior (OPB). Self-reported measures were administrated to 1398 participants from eastern China. Results showed (1) extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness were positively related to OPB, while neuroticism was negatively related to OPB; (2) perspective taking could serve as a mediator between all big five traits and OPB, social self-efficacy did the same job unless the predictor was agreeableness. Empathic concern and MI were less important mediators partly because OPB involves no face-to-face interaction. These findings show that personality has a significant effect on OPB through its influence on moral development.

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Humor Styles, Self-efficacy and Prosocial Tendencies in Middle Adolescents

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Student subjective wellbeing, school functioning, and psychological adjustment in high school adolescents: A latent variable analysis

Student subjective wellbeing, school functioning, and psychological adjustment in high school adolescents: A latent variable analysis

Prosocial Behavior and Moral Reasoning in Italian Adolescents and Young Adults

Bridging Personality and Online Prosocial Behavior: The Roles of Empathy, Moral Identity, and Social Self-Efficacy

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