The longitudinal reciprocal relations among friendship quality, positivity and prosocial behavior in chinese early adolescents

Zhou, Zheng; Shen, Rui; Tian, Lili

doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03743-2

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“…These behaviours are particularly important during adolescence, a phase of individual development characterised by the challenge to t in with groups of peers. In adolescence, prosocial behaviour has been associated with more positive and less negative friendships (3), whereas longitudinal studies have identi ed bidirectional associations between prosocial behaviour and positive friendship quality (4), and between prosocial behaviour and lower peer rejection in adolescents (5).…”

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Emotional Reactivity and Prosocial Behaviour in Response to Witnessing Social Exclusion in Adolescents with Eating Disorders and Healthy Controls

Rowlands

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Treasure

et al. 2023

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Background Prosocial behaviour can promote positive social interactions and it is a key skill in adolescence. People with emotional problems or psychiatric disorders, such as people with eating disorders might have impairments in prosocial behaviour, due to broader documented difficulties in underlying processes (e.g., mentalizing). Method The aim of this study was to examine prosocial behaviour in adolescents with eating disorders compared to healthy controls, using a behavioural task. Adolescents with eating disorders (N = 74) and healthy adolescents (N = 65) played a four-player virtual Prosocial Cyberball Game with three pre-programmed avatars. During the task the participant witnessed the exclusion of one of the players, and subsequently had the opportunity to compensate for this by throwing the ball more often to the excluded player. Throughout the game, participants rated the level of negative affect in themselves and in the excluded player. Results Both patients and healthy controls made significantly more ball-tosses to the excluded player after witnessing the exclusion, however patients made fewer compared to healthy controls (large effect size). Patients also reported a smaller increase in negative affect after witnessing virtual exclusion (large effect size) and a smaller decrease in negative affect following the compensation round (large effect size). Patients estimated a smaller decrease in negative affect in the excluded player following the compensation round (medium effect size). There were no associations between these outcomes and eating disorder psychopathology in the patient group. Conclusions Compared to healthy adolescents, adolescent patients with eating disorders demonstrate less prosocial compensatory behaviour towards a victim of virtual exclusion. In addition, they report flatter negative affect in themselves in response to witnessing and compensating for virtual exclusion, and in the excluded player in response to compensation. If these findings are replicated, interventions to target these difficulties might contribute to improve social functioning in this patient group.

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confidence: 99%

Emotional Reactivity and Prosocial Behaviour in Response to Witnessing Social Exclusion in Adolescents with Eating Disorders and Healthy Controls

Rowlands

Simic

Treasure

et al. 2023

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“…These behaviours are particularly important during adolescence, a phase of individual development characterised by the challenge to fit in with groups of peers [3]. In adolescence, prosocial behaviour has been associated with more positive and less negative friendships [4], whereas longitudinal studies have identified bidirectional associations between prosocial behaviour and positive friendship quality [5], and between prosocial behaviour and lower peer rejection in adolescents [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Emotional reactivity and prosocial behaviour in response to witnessing social exclusion in adolescents with eating disorders and healthy controls

Rowlands,

Simic,

Treasure

et al. 2023

J Eat Disord

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Background Prosocial behaviour can promote positive social interactions and it is a key skill in adolescence. People with emotional problems or psychiatric disorders, such as people with eating disorders might have impairments in prosocial behaviour, due to broader documented difficulties in underlying processes (e.g., mentalizing). Methods The aim of this study was to examine prosocial behaviour in adolescents with eating disorders compared to healthy controls, using a computerised behavioural task. Adolescents (N = 123) including patients with eating disorders (n = 61) and healthy adolescents (n = 62) played a four-player computerised Prosocial Cyberball Game with three pre-programmed avatar players. During the task, participants witnessed the exclusion of one of the players, and subsequently had the opportunity to compensate for this by throwing the ball more often to the excluded player. Throughout the game, participants rated the level of negative emotion in themselves and in the excluded player. Results Patients made significantly fewer ball tosses towards the excluded player during the compensation round compared to healthy controls (large effect size). Patients reported a significantly smaller increase in negative emotion after witnessing the exclusion and a significantly smaller decrease in negative emotion following the compensation round (large effect sizes). Patients also estimated a smaller decrease in negative emotion in the excluded player following the compensation round (medium effect size). There were no significant associations between these outcomes and eating disorder psychopathology in patients. Conclusions Compared to healthy adolescents, adolescent patients with eating disorders demonstrated less prosocial compensatory behaviour towards a computerised victim of social exclusion. In addition, they reported flatter negative emotion in themselves in response to witnessing and compensating for exclusion, and in the excluded player following compensation. If these findings are replicated, interventions to target these difficulties might contribute to improvements in social functioning in this patient group.

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Longitudinal relationships between perceived social support and social behaviors in preadolescence and early adolescence: the mediating role of social self-concept

Zhang,

Wu,

et al. 2024

Curr Psychol

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The longitudinal reciprocal relations among friendship quality, positivity and prosocial behavior in chinese early adolescents

Cited by 6 publications

References 85 publications

Emotional Reactivity and Prosocial Behaviour in Response to Witnessing Social Exclusion in Adolescents with Eating Disorders and Healthy Controls

Emotional Reactivity and Prosocial Behaviour in Response to Witnessing Social Exclusion in Adolescents with Eating Disorders and Healthy Controls

Emotional reactivity and prosocial behaviour in response to witnessing social exclusion in adolescents with eating disorders and healthy controls

Longitudinal relationships between perceived social support and social behaviors in preadolescence and early adolescence: the mediating role of social self-concept

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