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  • Educational Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Psychology

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  • Prosocial behavior is crucial for children's social development.
  • Classroom interventions can foster prosocial behavior.
  • Basic Psychological Needs Theory (BPNT) provides a framework for understanding motivation and well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how specific components of a classroom intervention promote prosocial behavior in primary school children.
  • To examine two sequential mediation pathways: quantity and quality.
  • To understand the role of basic psychological needs fulfillment (autonomy, competence, relatedness) and prosocial motivation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of data from a large-scale classroom intervention (N=1132).
  • Examination of the 'quantity pathway': presence of intervention components predicting prosocial behavior via general need fulfillment and prosocial motivation.
  • Examination of the 'quality pathway': specific need fulfillment within components predicting prosocial behavior via general need fulfillment and prosocial motivation.

Main Results:

  • Both quantity and quality pathways were supported.
  • Compliments and democratic meetings indirectly influenced prosocial behavior through general autonomy and relatedness.
  • Component-specific relatedness was a consistent predictor; component-specific autonomy had selective effects.

Conclusions:

  • Everyday classroom strategies can incrementally fulfill basic psychological needs, thereby promoting prosocial behavior.
  • Identifying specific intervention mechanisms is important for effective prosocial development strategies.
  • Need-supportive classroom environments foster children's prosocial development.