APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Attributions about Peers’ Prosocial Behavior: Associations with Victimization and Internalizing Problems
- Joo Young Yang
University of Alabama - Kristina McDonald
University of Alabama - Alison Farrell-Reeves
McGill University - Carolyn Gibson
Drury University - Melanie Dirks
McGill University
Abstract
Adolescents reported on peers’ prosocial behavior and attributions about peers’ behavior for 10 consecutive school days. Victimization was positively related to adolescents’ attributions that others were only nice to be reciprocal or were unintentionally “nice.” Attributions about prosocial acts being unintentional also exacerbated how victimization was related to internalizing problems.
Adolescent
