Adolescents with and Without Problems: Ratings About Prosocial Behavior and Empathic Concern
Table 1: Descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations) and comparison of forms of prosocial behavior among five groups of adolescents
| Students without problemsN=265 (A) | Students with externalising problemsN=44 (B) | Students with internalising problemsN=29 (C) | Students withexternalising and internalising problemsN=27 (D) | Students with prosocial behavior problemsN=25 (E) | Differences between samples(-values) | |
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | ||
| Caring | 2.50 (0.57) | 2.26 (0.51) | 2.87 (0,35) | 1.57 (0,59) | 1.85 (0.38) | A versus D (3.25**); A versus E (4.19*’); B versus D (3.96**); B versus E (4.53**); C versus D (3.93**); C versus E (6.14**); A versus B (2.21*); B versus C (1.99*). |
| Helping | 2.53 (0.62) | 2.27 (0.46) | 2.53 (0.49) | 1.51 (0.47) | 1.77 (0.68) | A versus D (4.03**); A versus E (5.06**); B versus D (3.05**); B versus E (3.41**); C versus D (4.69**); C versus E (3.61**)A versus B (1.88*); B versus C (2.05*). |
| Inclusion | 2.61 (0.58) | 2.52 (0.33) | 2.82 (0.64) | 1.57 (0.36) | 1.69 (0.61) | A versus D (4.23**); A versus E (3.71**); B versus D (3.64**); B versus E (4.94**); C versus D (3.27**); C versus E (3.16**); A versus B (2.10*);B versus C (2.14*). |
| Sharing | 2.14 (0.44) | 1.48 (0.42) | 1.27 (0.43) | 1.14 (0.58) | 0.38 (0.54) | A versus E (3.41**); B versus E (3.05*’); C versus E (3.01**); D versus E (3.56**). |