Chinese adolescents' power distance value and prosocial behavior toward powerful people: A longitudinal study

We were interested in how specific cultural value and adolescent social behavior would influence each other over time. Thus the present study explored the longitudinal and bidirectional relations between adolescents' power distance value and prosocial behavior toward powerful people over a year...

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Published in:PloS one 2018-12, Vol.13 (12), p.e0208473-e0208473
Main Authors: Fu, Xinyuan, Lv, Yichen, Yang, Zhixu, Yu, Xiaoxia, Wang, Rongrong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Altruism
Analysis
Behavior
Biology and Life Sciences
Child
Child development
China
Chinese culture
Correlation analysis
Cultural values
Culture
Economics
Families & family life
Female
Females
Gender differences
Helping behavior
Human behavior
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Materialism
People and Places
Power
Power, Psychological
Prosocial behavior
Psychology
Self esteem
Self image
Social aspects
Social Behavior
Social Sciences
Social values
Socialization
Sociology
Teachers
Teenagers
Theory
Youth
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Summary:We were interested in how specific cultural value and adolescent social behavior would influence each other over time. Thus the present study explored the longitudinal and bidirectional relations between adolescents' power distance value and prosocial behavior toward powerful people over a year. A sample of 434 Chinese adolescents participated in the investigation (initial mean age = 11.27; 54.15% females). The results based on cross-lagged models showed that, earlier prosocial behavior toward powerful people was positively correlated to subsequent power distance value, but not vice versa. The findings point toward an understanding of the important role of adolescent social behavior on his/her cultural value development, and also shed light on future research in terms of the interplay between cultural values and individual's social behaviors in other cultures.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0208473