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Trajectories of Parental Warmth and the Role They Play in Explaining Adolescent Prosocial Behavior
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol.53(3), pp.526-536
2024
PMID: 37864730
Abstract
Adolescent prosocial behavior suggests social competence and it is associated with greater parental warmth yet the experience of warmth through child and adolescent development is not well understood as it relates to such prosocial behavior. A nationally representative dataset from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children cohort was used. The analyses involved multiple waves beginning when children were aged 4-5. The main analyses used a sample of 2723 adolescents aged 16-17 years (Mean, S.D. = 16.45, 0.50; 49.2% female, 50.8% male). Parental warmth trajectories (from ages 4-5 through 16-17 years) were created and used to explore the accumulated effect of a lifecourse of parental warmth on adolescent prosocial behavior as measured when adolescents were aged 16-17 years. There were three trajectories described as, consistent (28.7%), slight decline (51.4%), and declining warmth (19.8%). These were associated with prosocial behavior; adolescents with a slight decline in warmth were 2.2 times less likely than those with consistent warmth to have the highest prosocial behavior. Consistent parental warmth likely provides greatest benefit for increased prosocial behavior in mid-adolescence.
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- Title
- Trajectories of Parental Warmth and the Role They Play in Explaining Adolescent Prosocial Behavior
- Authors
- Lisa Buckley (Corresponding Author) - The University of QueenslandTiffany Atkins (Author) - The University of QueenslandWithanage Perera (Author) - The University of QueenslandMichael Waller (Author) - The University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol.53(3), pp.526-536
- Publisher
- Springer New York LLC
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10964-023-01887-3
- ISSN
- 1573-6601; 0047-2891
- PMID
- 37864730
- Copyright note
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Data Availability
- The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. However, data are available with permission from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991003698802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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