Prosocial Self-schemas and Behavior

Prosocial Self-schemas and Behavior

The theoretical question that has been posed in this article is whether prosocial private self-schemas and prosocial private self-awareness are predictors of prosocial behavior. The self-schema is believed to play an important role in the regulation of behavior. It is believed that behavior is influenced by the activation of a schema. This schema is connected to the perception of self. Little evidence is shown to conclude that self-schemas are independently influencing any type of behavior and it is presumed that both the descriptive information about the self and the behavioral information are stored independently of each other. This would infer that the linkages that are between the self-schema and behaviors are not completely definite.

To have an influence on behavior private self-attention is critical. One must be self-aware in order to adhere to private self-awareness. This private self-awareness seems to have a lower limit of approximately age nine.

The question asked is that of, are there definite linkages between the prosocial self and the prediction of prosocial behavior and if so what are those linkages.

In the first study of three, the subjects were above the age of nine years. The reason for that was that children begin to label themselves differently. At this age, children start to label themselves with more traits and not with behavioral self-descriptions. There were thirty-eight participants from fifth through seventh grade. There was nineteen of each gender. The study examined the two self-schema and the schemalike control measures. The two self-schemas were private self-attention and private self-awareness. The two schemalike control measures were communion a...

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...that would just show a private self-schemas.

I agree with the conclusions of these experiments. They show a great deal of planning and research. The methods that were used were backed by previous research. I think that the only alternative explanation there could be it that the sample size was just too small.

There would be at least two follow-up studied conducted. The first would almost identical to the first study here. I would change the experimenters to one group with one male and one female and a second would be conducted with two male experimenters. I would expect to find by doing this a greater interaction with the self-aware males.

The second follow-up experiment would be one of the topics touched upon in the general discussion. I would conduct a study in the qualifications that are important and that are necessary for prosocial behavior.