“…However, some studies investigated the role of mother-and teacher-child relationships in child prosocial behavior (Howes, Matheson, & Hamilton, 1994;Kienbaum, Volland, & Ulich, 2001;MitchellCopeland, Denham, & Demulder, 1997). These studies showed a significant association between the quality of the teacher-child relationship and children's prosocial behavior, but not between the mother-child relationship and children's prosocial behavior (Howes et al, 1994;Kienbaum et al, 2001;Mitchell-Copeland et al, 1997). Kienbaum et al (2001) suggested the existence of a context effect to explain these results.…”