Loving Me or Loving You: Influencing the Attitudes and Behaviors of Children through a Prosocial Intervention

Research indicates that narcissism may increase antisocial tendencies in children as young as preschool. In this quasi-experimental study, manners lessons on selfless, prosocial behavior were used as an intervention to decrease narcissism and antisocial behavior within second and third grade classro...

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Main Author:	Gose, Shawna H.
Other Authors:	Baumgartner, Jennifer
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	LSU 2011
Subjects:	Human Ecology
Online Access:	http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04252011-083956/

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spelling	ndltd-LSU-oai-etd.lsu.edu-etd-04252011-0839562013-01-07T22:53:18Z Loving Me or Loving You: Influencing the Attitudes and Behaviors of Children through a Prosocial Intervention Gose, Shawna H. Human Ecology Research indicates that narcissism may increase antisocial tendencies in children as young as preschool. In this quasi-experimental study, manners lessons on selfless, prosocial behavior were used as an intervention to decrease narcissism and antisocial behavior within second and third grade classrooms. Manners lessons provided children with opportunities to demonstrate prosocial attitudes toward others and thus were expected to decrease narcissism, increase empathy, decrease conduct problems and peer problems, and increase prosocial behavior. The present intervention positively influenced the external behavior of children as indicated by a decrease in conduct problems and peer problems and an increase in prosocial behavior for intervention group participants. The allotted treatment time did not produce a significant change in attitudes of narcissism or empathy, however. Additional, longitudinal studies are needed to further examine the influence of intervention on internal attitudes of narcissism and empathy. Baumgartner, Jennifer Marks, Loren DiCarlo, Cynthia LSU 2011-04-26 text application/pdf http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04252011-083956/ http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04252011-083956/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached herein a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to LSU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below and in appropriate University policies, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report.
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description	Research indicates that narcissism may increase antisocial tendencies in children as young as preschool. In this quasi-experimental study, manners lessons on selfless, prosocial behavior were used as an intervention to decrease narcissism and antisocial behavior within second and third grade classrooms. Manners lessons provided children with opportunities to demonstrate prosocial attitudes toward others and thus were expected to decrease narcissism, increase empathy, decrease conduct problems and peer problems, and increase prosocial behavior. The present intervention positively influenced the external behavior of children as indicated by a decrease in conduct problems and peer problems and an increase in prosocial behavior for intervention group participants. The allotted treatment time did not produce a significant change in attitudes of narcissism or empathy, however. Additional, longitudinal studies are needed to further examine the influence of intervention on internal attitudes of narcissism and empathy.
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title	Loving Me or Loving You: Influencing the Attitudes and Behaviors of Children through a Prosocial Intervention
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