Banca de DEFESA: VANESSA CARLA COELHO DE LIMA

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STUDENT : VANESSA CARLA COELHO DE LIMA
DATE: 12/05/2021
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Social Networks and Prosocial Behavior in Children

KEY WORDS:

Network Dynamics; Children; Prosociality; Dictator's Game; Public Goods Game.

PAGES: 129
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Prosocial behaviors are recognized as attributes essential to the formation and maintenance of bonds between individuals living in society. However, human social relations happen in a great number and in different ways, and the decision to act prosocially is influenced by proximal and contextual factors. In this work, we used social network analysis to examine the hypothesis that the prosocial behaviors of children 5-6 and 10-11 years old, are based on evaluations of contextual factors of the relationships between dyads and in the group as: social proximity and type of group. In a pilot study, 51 children (out of 170 predicted) had their social proximity and play networks constructed from a sampling effort of 25.5 hours of focal observation during the months of February to June 2018. They were also submitted to an application of the Dictator's Game, and four replicates of the Public Goods Game. Our results showed that: 1) the vertex degree of children of 5 and 6 years old was positively correlated with a higher offer of spontaneous pro-social behaviors, but the lower donation in the Dictator's game 2) The strength index was positively correlated the offering, and receipt of prosocial actions only among the youngest children; 3) For both ages, positive correlations were found between the offering of pro-social behaviors and the centrality of the individuals, as well as between the centrality and the reception of this type of behavior; 4) the reach correlated with the offering of prosocial behaviors at all ages. These results suggest that interactions between individuals and the position within their social networks relate to cooperative behavior and that socialization factors acquired with development seem to influence changes in the supply and reception of these behaviors. However, it is necessary to expand the sample to confirm our results.

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