The types and development of adolescents´ prosocial behaviors online

Author

Lei Li ; Ma Xiaohui

Author_Institution

Inst. of Psychol., Renmin Univ. of China, Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

263

Abstract

The present study was designed to examine the characteristics and development of prosocial behaviors online of adolescents. Four hundred forty-seven adolescents were assessed 6 types of prosocial behaviors online through questionnaire. The results indicated that (1) adolescents´ conducted lots of prosocial behaviors on the Internet; (2) adolescents reported dire prosocial behaviors online the most, followed by altruistic, emotional, anonymous, compliant, and public prosocial behaviors; (3) there was a significant main effect of gender on altruistic prosocial behaviors online, which girls scored higher than adolescent boys; (4) finally, prosocial behaviors online reduced with grade except dire.

Keywords

Internet; behavioural sciences; social aspects of automation; Internet; adolescent prosocial behavior online; altruistic behavior; anonymous behavior; compliant behavior; emotional behavior; public prosocial behavior; Educational institutions; Ethics; IP networks; Instruments; Internet; Psychology; adolescents; development; prosocial behaviors online; types;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Society, 2009. SWS '09. 1st IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lanzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4157-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4158-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SWS.2009.5271805

Filename

5271805