Adolescents’ Internet Morality and Pro-social Behaviors Online

MA XiaoHui

Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2011, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2) : 423-428.

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Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2011, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2) : 423-428.

Adolescents’ Internet Morality and Pro-social Behaviors Online

  • MA XiaoHui1,
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As an increasing part of the Internet users, adolescent morality and moral behaviors on the internet deserved much attention. The present study investigated 447 adolescents’ moral performance on the Internet, Internet pro-social behaviors, and the relation between their Internet morality and pro-social behaviors online. The results indicated that (1) adolescent Internet morality was positive, and the correlation among moral cognitions, emotions and intentions was positive; (2) adolescents conducted lots of online pro-social behaviors. And adolescents reported dire online pro-social behaviors the most, followed by altruistic, emotional, anonymous, compliant, and public pro-social behaviors; (3) the frequency of altruistic pro-social behaviors in girls was significantly higher than in boys, and the public, anonymous, emotional, altruistic, and compliant pro-social behaviors reduced with the grade; (4) Internet moral cognitions and emotions could positively predict online pro-social behaviors. The results showed that the adolescent Internet morality could predict the moral behaviors on the Internet: if adolescents take more positive moral attitude, they would conduct more online pro-social behaviors.

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adolescents / Internet moral cognitions / Internet moral emotions / Internet moral intentions / pro-social behaviors online

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MA XiaoHui. Adolescents’ Internet Morality and Pro-social Behaviors Online[J]. Journal of Psychological Science. 2011, 34(2): 423-428
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