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Copyright Masarykova Univerzita Filozofická Fakulta 2015

Abstract

Prosocial development and character education are those of highest important challenges for contemporary school. The aim of present study is to examine how pupils perceive their own prosociality, how they evaluate the classmates, what are the assessements made by teachers, and whether there is a coherency between them which could be enounced in general. The study is part of a wider experimental research plan focused on the effects of ethics education in pre-research phase. Authors used the revised version of Roche's Prosocial Behaviour Scale (1998) for school population of 254 fifth and sixth grade's pupils (132 boys) in the age from 10 to 12. Results show significant differences in self-perception and other-percetion mainly based upon sex, not linear only. Teachers perceive the girls as more prosocial than the girls perceive themselves, and by contrast teachers evaluate the boys more negatively than the boys see themselves. In general, boys consider themselves more prosocial than they are seen by others; by girls this inadequacy disappears. If compare the age, 5th and 6th grade respectively, the strongest differences were investigated in group of teachers who perceive the younger pupils significantly more prosocial. Family situation plays role when a child lives only with father. In this case a child self-perception of prosociality is strongly worse than it is percepted by others.

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Title
CHARAKTERISTIKY HODNOTENIA A SEBAHODNOTENIA PROSOCIÁLNEHO SPRÁVANIA U ZIAKOV PIATYCH A SIESTYCH ROCNÍKOV VYBRANÝCH ZÁKLADNÝCH SKÔL/FEATURES OF EVALUATION AND SELF-EVALUATION OF PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG FIFTH- AND SIXTH-GRADE PUPILS
Author
Brestovanský, Martin; Sádovská, Anna; Kusý, Peter; Podmanický, Ivan
Pages
67-83
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Masarykova Univerzita Filozofická Fakulta
ISSN
18037437
e-ISSN
23364521
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Czech
ProQuest document ID
1769415818
Copyright
Copyright Masarykova Univerzita Filozofická Fakulta 2015