title: Prospective associations between prosocial behavior and social dominance in early childhood: are sharers the best leaders?
abstract: A short-term longitudinal study during early childhood (N = 96; M = 42.80; SD = 7.57) investigated the concurrent and prospective association between prosocial behavior and social dominance. Time-intensive school-based focal child sampling with continuous recording observations of prosocial behavior to peers were conducted and teacher-reports of social dominance were collected. The study documents significant prospective links between prosocial behavior to peers and increases in social dominance over time. Social dominance was not associated with changes in prosocial behavior. The findings extend past empirical work in early childhood and future directions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: a University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
authors.forename: Jamie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ostrov
authors.forename: Jamie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Guzzo
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012919:Social Behavior; D012930:Social Dominance
keywords: early childhood; gender; observation; preschool; prosocial behavior; social dominance