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28 - Prosocial Behavior, Positive Youth Development, and Character Virtues

A Dynamic, Relational Developmental Systems-Based Model

from Part IV - Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

By
Richard M. Lerner ,
Jacqueline V. Lerner  and
Mary H. Buckingham
Edited by
Tina Malti  and
Maayan Davidov
Tina Malti
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Maayan Davidov
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Summary

No form of biological life exists independent of other lives across its ontogeny. Among humans, mutually beneficial and adaptive (functional) development occurs when (1) an individual acts in ways that contribute to the well-being of the person’s social ecology, including the other individuals in the social world and the social institutions of this context, and (2) the social world supports the positive and healthy development of the individual. Within dynamic, relational developmental systems–based models of human development, these dynamic individual ⬄ individual/social institution relationships constitute adaptive developmental regulations and are the essence of prosociality. We present a dynamic model of the links among prosociality, positive youth development (PYD), and character virtue development. We present the theoretical rationale for the hypothesis that the enhancement of character virtue development through specific character education programs can provide the contextual conditions that, when aligned with an individual’s attributes of thriving, increase the likelihood that PYD and prosociality will be linked among youth.

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prosocialitypositive youth development (PYD)character virtuesdynamic modelsrelational developmental systems
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The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality
Development, Mechanisms, Promotion
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Print publication year: 2023

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