Pro-Social Activities Workshop
Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other people. These actions are characterized by a concern for the rights, feelings, and welfare of other people. Behaviors that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy and concern for others.
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Benefits
Youth are afforded more opportunities to express helping behaviors in other social spheres beyond the family context
- Mood-boosting effects
- Social support benefits
- Stress-reducing effects
Examples
- Helping: Helping others is a type of prosocial behavior that benefits both individuals and society as a whole
- Sharing: Many parents teach their children early on that they should share with their siblings and other children. But you can benefit society long after you've grown up by sharing what you have with others
- Donating: You can donate a wide variety of things to charities or people in your community who are less fortunate than you are.
- Volunteering: Volunteering is almost like donating, but instead of giving physical items, you're offering your time, abilities, and talents to benefit someone.
- Co-operating: Cooperating is simply working together with one or more people to accomplish a common goal. When people work together well, they can get more done than each could ever achieve on their own
- Emotional Support: Being emotionally supportive is a prosocial behavior that might not be as easy as it sounds. It can be distressing to listen to someone's troubles, and it can take some time to let them talk it out.
- Obeying Society : When you follow the rules, you benefit both yourself and society as a whole. What makes this prosocial behavior is that you do it willingly for the good of everyone.
- Social Conventions: Aside from the hard and fast written rules in society, there are also social conventions that most people follow most of the time.
Why Is It Important To Track Black Youth Pro-Social Behaviour?
- Prosocial behaviors have been linked to several important developmental outcomes including:
- peer.
- family.
- Relationships.
- academic achievement.
- drug use or non-use.
- delinquency.
- and overall psychological well-being.
- Gain better understanding of the black youth who engage in prosocial or aggressive behaviors.
- Third, much of the study of African American children and adolescents has focused on deficits and problems
A Study on Prosocial Behaviors and Black Youth
- Results revealed a significant main effect for empathy, as well as an interaction between empathy and gender in predicting prosocial behavior. In general, youth with more empathy reported more prosocial behavior, and this effect was more pronounced for males than females
- These findings suggest that the ability to understand another's perspective may be important in the development and expression of prosocial behaviors, particularly among males.
- Given the importance of prosocial behavior, there is a need for more research on prosocial behavior among BLACK YOUTH.