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- Title
Children's self‐evaluation of their prosociality when comparing themselves with a specific versus abstract other.
- Authors
Levy‐Friedman, Bar; Kogut, Tehila
- Abstract
This study examines the development of children's self‐assessment of their prosociality in normative social comparisons with an average peer, who was either a concrete individual, or an abstract one, at a school of average socioeconomic level in south Israel (N = 148, Age 6–12 years, 51% females; June 2021). Results show that older children exhibited the better‐than‐average (BTA) effect by perceiving themselves as more generous than their average peer. Conversely, younger children exhibited a worse‐than‐average effect, in that they assumed that their peers would act more generously than themselves (ηp2=.23). Only the older children (aged 8 years onward) were significantly affected by the concreteness of the target of comparison by exhibiting the BTA effect only when the average peer was abstract (not concrete).
- Subjects
SOCIAL comparison; PROSOCIAL behavior; SELF-evaluation; CHILD behavior; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIAL psychology research
- Publication
Child Development, 2024, Vol 95, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.13975