Social competence refers to the ability to engage in meaningful interactions with others. It is
a crucial skill potentially malleable to interventions. Nevertheless, it remains difficult to select …

Research has indicated that empathy and prosocial responding are associated with
numerous emotional, psychological and social benefits. However, although adolescence is …

Highlights•Parental warmth and sensitivity promote young children's empathy and prosocial
behavior.•Parent socialization of emotion predicts prosociality through emotion regulation …

Objective As empathy is an important predictor of both bullying and defending behavior,
many anti-bullying interventions aim to increase empathy among students. However, little is …

Although researchers have developed prevention programs to reduce bullying, the results
are mixed, and this may be due to a degree of uncertainty in their theoretical foundation. In …

Although research has shown the effects of empathy manipulations on prejudice, little is
known about the long-term relation between empathy and prejudice development, the …

This article introduces a developmental perspective on kindness. The central goal is to posit
a new framework for the study of kindness and its development. From an ethical perspective …

This paper reviews school-based (n= 212) and clinically-based (n= 68) positive
psychological interventions (PPIs) for children and adolescents. A new 3× 3 classification of …

Highlights•Studies on prosocial behaviors in the early years increase understanding of
origin and antecedents of prosocial development.•Longitudinal studies specify how …

This theoretical article aims to introduce a new conceptual framework for the understanding
and enhancement of child and adolescent social-emotional development (SED). We first …