A School Intervention Promotes Compassion, Empathy and Social Relationships in Children

Autor/inn/en	Kappelmayer, Marcela; Czar, Andrea; Tresca, Maria; D'Adamo, Paola; Lozada, Mariana
Titel	A School Intervention Promotes Compassion, Empathy and Social Relationships in Children
Quelle	In: School Psychology International, 44 (2023) 5, S.515-532 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lozada, Mariana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-0343
DOI	10.1177/01430343221145668
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Altruism; Empathy; Interpersonal Competence; Elementary School Students; Social Emotional Learning; Pretests Posttests; Student Attitudes; Effect Size; Foreign Countries; Grade 4; Social Behavior; Argentina (Buenos Aires) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Empathie; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten
Abstract	There is increasing evidence to show that compassion and altruism are highly beneficial when cultivated from an early age. In the present study we explore the benefits of an intervention programme that seeks to develop affective empathy, compassion and altruism in 9-year-old children from a school of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A pretest-posttest controlled study was carried out with 48 children, half of whom carried out the intervention. The remaining children, who constituted the waitlist group, participated in academic tutoring activities conducted by the same research team. The intervention was successful in promoting children's altruistic and compassionate attitudes, evidenced by the results obtained in the universal altruism test, social integration, and affective response. Effect sizes ranged from medium to large in the intervention group. These positive findings were not observed in the waitlist group (non-significant effect sizes). This study shows that children's self-awareness and awareness of others tend to foster compassion and affective empathy, contributing to individual and collective well-being. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01