Comparative Study of Prosocial Behavior of College Students with the Only Child and Firstborn Child in Two-Child Families
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- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.146How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Prosocial behavior; Only child; Firstborn child; College student
- Abstract
With the implementation of the universal two-child policy in China, more and more children are taking on the role of elder brother and elder sister. Furthermore, college is the main stage of prosocial behavior performance. To explore whether there is a difference between the prosocial behavior of the only children and the first-born children in second-child families, 164 college students were investigated. The Prosocial Tendencies Measure was used to survey the prosocial behavior of college students. The result shows that the prosocial behavior difference between the first-born child in two children’s families and the only child is not significant. It means that among college students, the tendency for prosocial behavior has nothing to do with whether they are the only child or not. Therefore, parents should give equal care and guidance to the two children, which is conducive to the children’s mental health development.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shi Cheng AU - Xuan Wang AU - Xing Zhou PY - 2022 DA - 2022/07/11 TI - Comparative Study of Prosocial Behavior of College Students with the Only Child and Firstborn Child in Two-Child Families BT - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 807 EP - 811 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.146 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.146 ID - Cheng2022 ER -