O comportamento pró-social de crianças com sintomatologia do transtorno da conduta
Pro-social behaviors are seen regularly throughout our daily lives, as we often witness people giving alms, helping a neighbor move, donating blood, or taking care of a friend's children, among others. From an evolutionary perspective, such behaviors occur because they have a high adaptive v...
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| Resumo: | Pro-social behaviors are seen regularly throughout our daily lives, as we often witness
people giving alms, helping a neighbor move, donating blood, or taking care of a
friend's children, among others. From an evolutionary perspective, such behaviors
occur because they have a high adaptive value to our species, precisely due to our high
degree of dependence on group living for survival. Probably, for this same reason,
since children have shown a preference for prosocial behaviors over antisocial
behaviors, this preference becomes more visible as we grow. However, children with
symptoms of conduct disorder show a pattern of aggressive, impulsive and more
selfish behaviors than children without such symptoms. Furthermore, these children
also experience environments in which antisocial behaviors are more frequent and
intense compared to the general population. Priming experiments are one way of
measuring the influence of simple environmental cues on our behavior. For example,
driving faster when listening to music, religious people help more on religious
elements, like the bible, and children are more cooperative after playing games of an
educational nature. Thus, the objectives of the current study were to: evaluate
whether there is any difference in generosity, through sharing behavior, among
children with and without symptoms of conduct disorder; analyze the influence of prosocial
priming on sharing behavior on children with and without symptoms of conduct
disorder; and finally, analyze from an evolutionary perspective, the reasons given by
children with and without symptoms of conduct disorder for sharing or not sharing
with their best friend in a classroom environment. To address this question, the
teachers of these children were asked to respond to an inventory that was designed to
signal the presence or absence of symptoms of conduct disorder. Children identified as
having or not having symptoms of conduct disorder could then undergo an
experimental (with priming) or control (no priming) condition. Under the experimental
condition, the children were asked to watch two short videos showing scenes of
helping and sharing among peers, to perform a distraction activity, and finally to chose
two of four different materials presented by the researcher and decide how much of
these two materials they would like to share with their best friend in the classroom.
Then the children were asked about their reasons for sharing or not sharing. Children
subjected to the control condition performed the same activities as in the
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experimental condition, but did not watch the video first. The results showed a notable
difference in the effect of priming in accordance with the child's stage of development;
a difference in the amount of material donated to a best friend by children with and
without symptoms of conduct disorder, and a change in this observed difference with
the influence of pro-social priming; and finally, a convergence in the thinking of
children regarding their reasons for sharing with evolutionary theory. The results of
this study also indicate the importance of individual factors, developmental stage,
environmental and evolutionary conditions in the pro-social behavior of children with
and without symptoms of conduct disorder. |
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