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ArticlePublication Metadata only The longitudinal associations among temperament, parenting, and Turkish children's prosocial behaviors(Wiley, 2017-06-19) Laible, D. J.; Kumru, Asiye; Carlo, G.; Streit, C.; Selcuk, B.; Sayil, M.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeIn Turkey, responsive behaviors toward kin are expected from children. Despite this, we know little about the factors that influence young Turkish children's prosocial behaviors. The goal was to explore how temperament and parenting are related to children's prosocial development in Turkey. A total of 293 Turkish children (Mage = 49 months; 48.12% females) were followed up for 3 years. Mothers completed measures of their child's prosocial behaviors, as well as measures of their warmth, inductive reasoning, and the child's approach and reactivity. Maternal warmth predicted children's reactivity, and maternal induction predicted children's sociability. Children's reactivity was inversely related to children's helping behavior and sociability was related to more prosocial behavior. Maternal warmth had indirect links with helping through lessening children's reactivity.ArticlePublication Metadata only Longitudinal relations among parenting daily hassles, child rearing, and prosocial and aggressive behaviors in Turkish children(Wiley, 2018-02) Gülseven, Z.; Carlo, G.; Streit, C.; Kumru, Asiye; Selçuk, B.; Sayıl, M.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeThe present study was designed to examine the longitudinal relations between parenting daily hassles and young children's later prosocial and aggressive behaviors, as well as the mediating role of parenting practices in a non‐Western society. The final sample was 159 middle class Turkish school age children (45.3% girls, Mage= 84.69 months, 76.9% from public school, 23.1% from private school in Bolu, Ankara, and İstanbul) and their mothers. Overall, we found longitudinal evidence that parenting daily hassles, warmth, and physical punishment were significantly and differentially associated with children's prosocial and aggressive behaviors 3 years later. The present findings extend our understanding of the interplay of parenting and stress in predicting children's prosocial and aggressive development in a non‐Western culture.ArticlePublication Metadata only The mediational roles of harsh and responsive parenting in the longitudinal relations between socioeconomic status and Turkish children’s emotional development(Sage, 2018-11) Gülseven, Z.; Kumru, Asiye; Carlo, G.; Palermo, F.; Selçuk, B.; Sayıl, M.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeThis study examined the associations among the socioeconomic status (SES) of Turkish families when children (N = 340, Mean age = 83 months, SD = 3.59, 50.3% boys) were approximately 7 years of age (Time 1) and their emotional lability and emotion regulation tendencies 3 years later (Time 3). We also examined the mediating roles of mothers’ harsh and responsive parenting behaviors when children were 9 years of age (Time 2). Results revealed that family SES was positively linked to parental responsiveness and negatively linked to harsh parenting; harsh parenting was positively linked to children’s emotion lability and negatively linked to children’s emotion regulation (after controlling for prior levels of emotion regulation and emotional lability at Time 2). Further, harsh parenting significantly mediated the associations between family SES and children’s emotional lability and emotion regulation tendencies. The pattern of associations did not vary by child gender or community (e.g., Istanbul, Ankara, Bolu) in Turkey. The findings highlight the interplay among family SES, maternal parenting behaviors, and children’s self-regulation outcomes in a non-Western, collectivist society.ArticlePublication Metadata only Prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behavior among Turkish and Spanish adolescents(Society for Personality Research, 2012) Kumru, Asiye; Carlo, G.; Mestre, M. V.; Samper, P.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeProsocial moral reasoning and behavior of young people in early and middle adolescence were examined in relation to the association among the variable of cultural group, age, and gender. Adolescents from Valencia, Spain (673 boys, 579 girls) and Ankara, Turkey (185 boys, 145 girls) participated in this study. Results showed significant cultural group differences on both prosocial moral reasoning subscales and peer rating of prosocial behavior with Spanish adolescents scoring higher than Turkish adolescents, and in the pattern of relationships between these variables. There were also age group and gender differences on some types of prosocial moral reasoning and behaviors, but the effect sizes were small and the differences were very small. Findings suggest culture-specific patterns of prosocial behavior among the adolescents in the two samples.ArticlePublication Metadata only The protective role of early prosocial behaviours against young Turkish children’s later internalizing and externalizing problems(Taylor & Francis, 2022-05-04) Gülseven, Z.; Carlo, G.; Kumru, Asiye; Sayıl, M.; Selçuk, B.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeThis study examined the protective roles of early prosocial behaviours (at age 4) on later internalizing and externalizing problems (at age 6) and to what extent emotion regulation skills (at age 5) mediated these longitudinal associations in children from Turkey. Participants were 293 Turkish preschool children (M-age = 49.01 months; 141 girls). Results showed that higher prosocial behaviours at age 4 were linked to higher emotion regulation at age 5, which, in turn, was linked to less internalizing problems at age 6. Additionally, prosocial behaviours at age 4 were negatively linked to emotional lability at age 5, which, in turn, was positively linked to externalizing problems at age 6. We also found that higher prosocial behaviours at age 4 were directly and negatively linked to both less internalizing and externalizing problems at age 6. These results were robust for boys and girls and children who lived in big and small cities. Overall, there was supportive evidence on the protective roles of earlier prosocial behaviours on later internalizing and externalizing problems. These findings extend existing models of risk and resilience to a sample of children from a non-Western, relatively collectivist-oriented culture and inform our understanding of these posited relations in young children.ArticlePublication Metadata only The roles of perspective taking, empathic concern, and prosocial moral reasoning in the self-reported prosocial behaviors of filipino and Turkish young adults(Sage, 2020-11) Gulseven, Z.; Kumru, Asiye; Carlo, G.; de Guzman, M. R.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeTraditional social cognitive model of prosocial development suggests important links between both sociocognitive and socioemotive traits and prosocial behaviors. The present study examined the relations among perspective taking, empathic concern, prosocial moral reasoning, and public, emotional, compliant, and anonymous prosocial behaviors in Filipino and Turkish young adults to test the generalizability of this traditional model. Participants were 257 college students recruited from state universities in Ankara, Turkey (57 women, 83 men; M-age = 19.26 years, SD = 0.63) and Manila, the Philippines (75 women, 42 men; M-age = 18.41 years, SD = 1.44). Results showed that the relations among perspective taking, empathic concern, prosocial moral reasoning, and four types of self-reported prosocial behaviors were robust across two countries and gender. Perspective taking was positively related to empathic concern, which, in turn, was positively related to emotional and compliant prosocial behaviors. Perspective taking was also positively related to prosocial moral reasoning, which, in turn, was positively related to anonymous and negatively related to public prosocial behaviors. Overall, the findings provide support for the generalizability of traditional model of prosocial development and extend our understanding of prosocial behaviors to two non-Western, collectivist-oriented societies.ArticlePublication Open Access What should I do and who’s to blame? A cross-national study on youth’s attitudes and beliefs in times of COVID-19(Public Library of Science, 2022-12-21) De Moor, E. L.; Cheng, T. Y.; Spitzer, J. E.; Berger, C.; Carrizales, A.; Garandeau, C. F.; Gerbino, M.; Hawk, S. T.; Kaniušonytė, G.; Kumru, Asiye; Malonda, E.; Rovella, A.; Shen, Y. L.; Taylor, L. K.; van Zalk, M.; Branje, S.; Carlo, G.; Walker, L. P.; Van der Graaff, J.; Psychology; KUMRU, AsiyeThe COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on youth. This study examined factors associated with youth’s attitudes towards their government’s response to the pandemic and their blaming of individuals from certain risk groups, ethnic backgrounds, and countries or regions. In a sample of 5,682 young adults (Mage = 22) from 14 countries, lower perceived burden due to COVID-19, more collectivistic and less individualistic values, and more empathy were associated with more positive attitudes towards the government and less blaming of individuals of certain groups. Youth’s social identification with others in the pandemic mediated these associations in the same direction, apart from the COVID-19 burden on attitudes, which had a positive indirect effect. No evidence of country-level moderation was found.