Examining the Link between Stress Events and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescents: More Ordinary Magic?

Autor/inn/en	Larson, Andrea; Moses, Tally
Titel	Examining the Link between Stress Events and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescents: More Ordinary Magic?
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 49 (2017) 6, S.779-804 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X14563049
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Prosocial Behavior; Adolescents; Resilience (Psychology); Stress Variables; Coping; Social Support Groups; Social Status; Peer Relationship; Helping Relationship; Predictor Variables; Student Behavior; Hypothesis Testing; Secondary School Students; Student Surveys; Risk; Intervention; Individual Characteristics; Racial Differences; Minority Group Students; Socioeconomic Influences; Gender Differences; Homosexuality; Age Differences; Ethnic Groups; Multivariate Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Bewältigung; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Sozialer Status; Peer-Beziehungen; Helfende Beziehung; Prädiktor; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Sekundarschüler; Schülerbefragung; Risiko; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rassenunterschied; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Geschlechterkonflikt; Homosexualität; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ethnie; Multivariate Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Scholarship regarding adolescent resilience has typically defined resilience as the absence of negative outcomes rather than the existence of positive outcomes. This study drew on the challenge model of resilience, which anticipates a curvilinear relationship between stress exposure and adaptive functioning, to test whether adolescents reporting moderate levels of stress exposure were more likely to evidence prosocial behavior than youth exposed to more or less stress. Using data from approximately 13,000 adolescents, we tested three analytic models and investigated hypothesized moderation by coping, social resources, and markers of adolescent status. Our results did not align with the challenge model. Instead, we found that stress exposure was differentially associated with measures of prosocial behavior, that social resources supported volunteering but impeded helping a peer in some instances, and that markers of historically marginalized status were more predictive of stopping peer harassment than volunteering. Implications for future research are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01