A longitudinal analysis of social class and adolescent prosocial behaviour: a latent growth model approach (Un análisis longitudinal de clase social y conducta prosocial adolescente: un enfoque de modelo de crecimiento latente). Issue 2 (4th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yao, Zhuojun; Enright, Robert
• Is Part Of: Revista de psicología social. Volume 37:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 242
• Page End: 270
• Publication Date: 2022-05-04
• Subjects: social class -- prosocial behaviour -- adolescent -- latent growth modelling -- latent growth mixture modelling; clase social -- conducta prosocial -- adolescente -- modelos de crecimiento latente -- modelos mixtos de crecimiento latente; Social psychology -- Periodicals; Social psychology; Periodicals; 302
• DOI: 10.1080/02134748.2022.2034292
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0213-4748

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The current research used longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( N = 1, 091) to examine the link between social class and prosocial behaviour from third grade to sixth grade. Latent growth modelling found that adolescents from families with increased income-to-needs ratio tended to experience an increase in prosocial behaviour from third grade to sixth grade; adolescents from families with high income-to-needs ratio in third grade were more likely to be identified as the class of high initial with decrease ; adolescents in the profile of high initial with decrease tended to be more prosocial in each grade and came from families with higher levels of income-to-needs ratio, higher parental education and higher parental occupation. Implications and future directions were presented.