| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 心理學研究所 === 101 === The current study is to examine the relations among parental practices, adolescents’ sociomoral cognitions and emotions, and prosocial behavioral tendencies in adolescence. Four hundred and seventy one (271 boys, and 196 girls) junior high school students from Chayi county and city completed a questionnaire which assesses the study variables including parental induction and punitiveness, sympathy, perspective taking, self-regulation, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial behavioral tendencies. In general, the results show that the grade level predicted only altruistic behavioral tendency and a few types of prosocial moral reasoning. On the other hand, girls reported more sympathy, self-regulation, internalized moral reasoning, and compliant, altruism, and emotional prosocial behaviors than did boys. Moreover, adolescents’ prosocial behavior development can be fostered by inductive parenting practices, sympathy, perspective taking, self-regulation, and moral reasoning. Interestingly, parental punitive practices also positively related to three types of prosocial behavior tendencies: public, dire and anonymous. Finally, the regression analysis results show that all the study variables contributed to different prosocial behaviors in various degrees. Overall, all the study variables are relevant to the development of adolescent prosocial behaviors; more specifically, parental practices and prosocial moral reasoning appear to be the key factors. The discussion focuses on possible cultural differences in punitive parenting impact, the importance of prosocial moral reasoning in moral behavior, and various effects of the study variables on the six prosocial behaviors. Future research should include samples from other areas in Taiwan and take into account other variables such as peer relations and close friends influence to further investigate the prosocial development of adolescents.
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