Abstract
Research has not adequately addressed a possible mutual co-regulatory influence of prosocial and aggressive behaviors in adolescents’ daily lives. This study explored bidirectional within-person associations between prosocial and aggressive behaviors in the daily school lives of early adolescents. The sample included 242 sixth-graders [Mage = 11.96 (SD = 0.18), 50% girls] and their teachers. Adolescents reported on daily prosocial behavior and reactive and proactive aggression for ten consecutive days. Teachers and adolescents reported on adolescents’ overall prosocial behaviors. Across-day prosocial behaviors increased after days when adolescents exhibited more reactive aggression but not among self-reported low-prosocial adolescents. Increased prosocial behaviors did not mitigate aggression the next day. The findings suggest prosocial behaviors are a plausible compensatory strategy after daily aggressive reactions.
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In accordance with ethical considerations, the study did not ask students about family income or parental education
Parallel models used proactive aggression as a continuous variable. These models appear in the supplemental materials. Results were identical to those for models with proactive aggression as a dichotomous variable.
Though not the focus, the study tested for possible sex differences in the frequency of the daily behaviors. Results are summarized in the supplementary materials.
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Arbel, R., Maciejewski, D.F., Ben-Yehuda, M. et al. Prosocial Behavior and Aggression in the Daily School Lives of Early Adolescents. J Youth Adolescence 51, 1636–1652 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01616-2
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