The relation between prosociality and self-esteem from middle-adolescence to young adulthood

Zuffianò, Antonio and Alessandri, Guido and Luengo Kanacri, Bernadette Paula and Pastorelli, Concetta and Milioni, Michela and Ceravolo, Rosalba and Caprara, Maria Giovanna and Caprara, Gian Vittorio (2014) The relation between prosociality and self-esteem from middle-adolescence to young adulthood. Personality and Individual Differences, 63. pp. 24-29. ISSN 01918869

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Abstract

The present study examined the longitudinal relations between prosociality and self-esteem. Participants were 386 (50.3% males) middle adolescents (Mage = 15.6) assessed over a 10-year period until they entered into young adulthood (Mage = 25.7). First, multivariate latent curve analysis indicated that the developmental increase of prosociality was positively related to the parallel increase of self-esteem. Second, an autoregressive cross-lagged model revealed that the direct effect of prosociality on self-esteem was statistically significant but essentially negligible. These findings corroborated from a long-term longitudinal perspective previous studies highlighting the positive correlation between the development of prosociality and self-esteem, and pointed out to the need for further investigating the relation between the two constructs. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	“NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Personality and Individual Differences, [VOL63, (June 2014)] DOI#10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.041¨
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User:	Antonio Zuffiano
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2016 08:30
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2017 00:15
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/985

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