Introduction. Despite the growing interest of research in prosocial socialization practices (e.g., modeling, contingency and coaching) and their influence on prosocial development in early childhood, to our knowledge no instruments have been developed for the assessment of such strategies. Aim. The aim of the current study is twofold: 1) assessing the psychometric proprieties of the Prosocial Practices Questionnaire (PPQ), a new instrument to evaluate parents’ prosocial socialization strategies; 2) investigating how parental strategies account for variation in toddlers’ prosocial behaviors. Method. A total of 409 Italian parents (M=36.04 yeas; SD=5.34; range: 21-61 years) from middle-class families in Northern Italy participated in the study. Children (218 boys) ranged in age from 12 to 46 months (M=28.37; SD=7.61). Parents were asked to fill in two questionnaires: the PPQ (Grazzani et al., 2016), regarding their prosocial socialization strategies, and the EmQue-I13 (Grazzani et al., 2015; 2017) concerning toddlers’ empathy and prosociality. Results. Confirmatory analyses showed good fit indices for the 10 item model: χ2(31)= 51.15, p=.013, NC = 1.65; RMSEA: .040; NFI = .95, NNFI = .97, CFI = .98. Such model evidenced 3 different factors reporting reasonable internal reliability values: Modeling (α=.673), Contingency (α=.698) and Coaching (α=.729). In addition, Multiple Hierarchical Regression models (controlled for age and gender) evidenced that PPQ accounts for EmQue total scores, especially with regards to Prosocial behaviors (Coaching, R2=.16, p<.001) and Attention to other (Contingency and Modeling: R2=.14, p<.001). Conclusions. The preliminary results of this study show that PPQ could be a useful instrument to assess parental prosocial socialization strategies. Furthermore, the outcomes of the multiple hierarchical regression confirm the influence of parents’ socialization practices on children’s prosocial behavior

Brazzelli, E., Farina, E., Grazzani, I., Pepe, A. (2017). The Prosocial Practices Questionnaire: Impact Of Parents’ Strategies On Children’s Prosocial Behavior. In 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Abstract book (pp.148).

The Prosocial Practices Questionnaire: Impact Of Parents’ Strategies On Children’s Prosocial Behavior

BRAZZELLI, ELISA
Primo
;
FARINA, ELEONORA
Secondo
;
GRAZZANI, ILARIA
Penultimo
;
PEPE, ALESSANDRO
Ultimo
2017

Abstract

Introduction. Despite the growing interest of research in prosocial socialization practices (e.g., modeling, contingency and coaching) and their influence on prosocial development in early childhood, to our knowledge no instruments have been developed for the assessment of such strategies. Aim. The aim of the current study is twofold: 1) assessing the psychometric proprieties of the Prosocial Practices Questionnaire (PPQ), a new instrument to evaluate parents’ prosocial socialization strategies; 2) investigating how parental strategies account for variation in toddlers’ prosocial behaviors. Method. A total of 409 Italian parents (M=36.04 yeas; SD=5.34; range: 21-61 years) from middle-class families in Northern Italy participated in the study. Children (218 boys) ranged in age from 12 to 46 months (M=28.37; SD=7.61). Parents were asked to fill in two questionnaires: the PPQ (Grazzani et al., 2016), regarding their prosocial socialization strategies, and the EmQue-I13 (Grazzani et al., 2015; 2017) concerning toddlers’ empathy and prosociality. Results. Confirmatory analyses showed good fit indices for the 10 item model: χ2(31)= 51.15, p=.013, NC = 1.65; RMSEA: .040; NFI = .95, NNFI = .97, CFI = .98. Such model evidenced 3 different factors reporting reasonable internal reliability values: Modeling (α=.673), Contingency (α=.698) and Coaching (α=.729). In addition, Multiple Hierarchical Regression models (controlled for age and gender) evidenced that PPQ accounts for EmQue total scores, especially with regards to Prosocial behaviors (Coaching, R2=.16, p<.001) and Attention to other (Contingency and Modeling: R2=.14, p<.001). Conclusions. The preliminary results of this study show that PPQ could be a useful instrument to assess parental prosocial socialization strategies. Furthermore, the outcomes of the multiple hierarchical regression confirm the influence of parents’ socialization practices on children’s prosocial behavior
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Prosocial behavior; parental prosocial socialization; questionnaire; early childhood.
English
European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP2017) August 29 to September 1
2017
18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Abstract book
2017
148
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Brazzelli, E., Farina, E., Grazzani, I., Pepe, A. (2017). The Prosocial Practices Questionnaire: Impact Of Parents’ Strategies On Children’s Prosocial Behavior. In 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Abstract book (pp.148).
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