Belonging and Bullying Study

A study of 900 middle schoolers found that students who report having a sense of belonging both at home and school are less likely to engage in bullying. The results indicate that the more a student feels like they belong among their peers and family, the more likely they will feel like they belong at school. In addition, the more they feel like they belong within their school community, the less likely they were to report bullying behaviors. This indicates that parents might be able to play a proactive role in increasing their child’s sense of belonging at school by focusing on improving a sense of belonging in the family.
Slaten, C., Rose, C., & Ferguson, J. (2019).  Understanding the relationship between youths' belonging and bullying behaviour: An SEM Model.  Educational & Child Psychology, 36(2).
https://shop.bps.org.uk/publications/publications-by-subject/educational-child-psychology-vol-36-no-2-june-2019-school-belonging.html

Children’s Media Use and Education

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has conducted a national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10 to find out how much of children's media time is devoted to educational content, platform by platform, age by age. This report is the first comprehensive analysis of parents' experiences with the educational media their children use. The report measures the degree to which children and parents use media together, overall and by platform, and looks at how this joint media engagement changes as children get older. The study also examines children's reading behaviors, especially online or on electronic reading devices. The full text of the questionnaire and all topline results are appended.

Rideout, V. (2014). Learning at home: Families' educational media use in America.

New York City, NY: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center. http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jgcc_learningathome.pdf

Prosocial Behavior and Human Development

Thus, this study examined how prosocial behavior toward different targets might change over time as individuals develop from adolescence into adulthood. Results suggested that prosocial behavior toward strangers increased across early to mid-adolescence and then flattened out during the transition to adulthood. Additionally, the results showed that prosocial behavior toward friends increased steadily, and prosocial behavior toward family was relatively stable across adolescence and then increased. The implications from this study suggest that many adolescents actually demonstrate increases, rather than decreases, in prosociality.

Padilla-Walker, L., Carlo, G., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2017). Longitudinal change in adolescents’ prosocial behavior toward strangers, friends, and family. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1-13. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12362.

Prosocial Behavior and Human Development

Thus, this study examined how prosocial behavior toward different targets might change over time as individuals develop from adolescence into adulthood. Results suggested that prosocial behavior toward strangers increased across early to mid-adolescence and then flattened out during the transition to adulthood. Additionally, the results showed that prosocial behavior toward friends increased steadily, and prosocial behavior toward family was relatively stable across adolescence and then increased. The implications from this study suggest that many adolescents actually demonstrate increases, rather than decreases, in prosociality.

Padilla-Walker, L., Carlo, G., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2017). Longitudinal change in adolescents’ prosocial behavior toward strangers, friends, and family. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1-13. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12362.

Prosocial Behavior and Human Development

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Thus, this study examined how prosocial behavior toward different targets might change over time as individuals develop from adolescence into adulthood. Results suggested that prosocial behavior toward strangers increased across early to mid-adolescence and then flattened out during the transition to adulthood. Additionally, the results showed that prosocial behavior toward friends increased steadily, and prosocial behavior toward family was relatively stable across adolescence and then increased. The implications from this study suggest that many adolescents actually demonstrate increases, rather than decreases, in prosociality.

Padilla-Walker, L., Carlo, G., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2017). Longitudinal change in adolescents’ prosocial behavior toward strangers, friends, and family. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1-13. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12362.