NDLI: Why and How to Promote Adolescents’ Prosocial Behaviors: Direct, Mediated and Moderated Effects of the CEPIDEA School-Based Program

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Author	Caprara, Gian Vittorio Luengo Kanacri, Bernadette Paula Zuffianò, Antonio Gerbi, Maria Pastorelli, Concetta
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Prosocial behaviors are considered integral to intervention goals that seek to promote successful youth development. This study examines the effect of a school-based intervention program entirely designed to promote prosocial behaviors called Promoting Prosocial and Emotional Skills to Counteract Externalizing Problems in Adolescence (Italian acronym CEPIDEA). The CEPIDEA curriculum was incorporated into routine educational practices and included five major components that reflect the personal determinants of prosocial behavior during adolescence. The present study assessed 151 students (48.7 % female; M $_{ age }$ = 12.4) of the intervention school and 140 students (51.2 % female; M $_{ age }$ = 13.0) of the control school at three points. A multi-group latent curve analysis revealed that the intervention group, compared with the control group, showed an increase in prosocial behavior, interpersonal self-efficacy beliefs, and agreeableness along with a decrease in physical aggression above and beyond the normative developmental trend of the these variables. Participants of the intervention also obtained higher grades than the control group at the end of middle school. Moderation effects for prosocial behavior and agreeableness evidenced that those who benefited most from the intervention were those adolescents with lower normative development of prosocial behavior, low initial level of agreeableness, and high initial level of physical aggression. The results also showed that the increase of prosocial behaviors mediated the decline of verbal aggression in adolescents who had attended the intervention. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at promoting prosocial behaviors while having the potential to support positive outcomes may also counteract or redirect negative trajectories of functioning.
Starting Page	2211
Ending Page	2229
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00472891
Journal	Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	12
e-ISSN	15736601
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-05-12
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	School-based intervention Adolescence Prosocial behavior Aggressive behavior Scholastic achievement Latent growth curve Child and School Psychology Clinical Psychology Health Psychology Law and Psychology History of Psychology Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology

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