Resilient and prosocial despite adversity

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Resilient and prosocial despite adversity

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Rohingya children have retained their prosociality as a fundamental human trait in the face of adversity. This is what researchers at the Humboldt Science Center for Child Development (HumanKind) at Leipzig University discovered. Credit: Tara Callaghan

Rohingya children, whose lives have been marked by flight and displacement, have retained their prosociality as a fundamental human trait in the face of adversity. This is what researchers at the Humboldt Science Center for Child Development (HumanKind) at Leipzig University discovered as part of an international research project.

Together with researchers from a number of countries, they explored ways of fostering the positive potential for prosociality in these children. They used an intervention program to promote prosociality and cooperation in Rohingya ******** children living in a mega-camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

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their findings in the latest Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.

“Our research shows that children’s prosocial behavior and well-being increased overall after the intervention, with some benefits being even greater for children who had been severely traumatized,” says co-author of the study Tyler Colasante from Leipzig University, who was involved in the research project together with HumanKind director Professor Tina Malti.

HumanKind and the project team examined the resilience of human prosociality in the face of extreme adversity. Their aim was to sensitively promote the potential of ****** and boys to develop positively in the context of conflicts, forced migration and displacement.

The intervention study was conducted in three phases between November 2021 and January 2022 with children aged between 5 and 12 years. In the preintervention phase, the children’s prosocial behavior and associated cognitive and emotional development processes were recorded.

The intervention phase involved a daily small group intervention lasting three hours. Pairs of children were observed in a variety of play-based activities, such as cooperation (for example, building with LEGO), emotional perspective-taking (for example, listening to stories and judging how the characters felt in situations with happy and unhappy outcomes), and cognitive skills training.

In the postintervention phase, these prosocial behaviors and cognitive and emotional processes were recorded again in order to investigate whether the intervention had led to an increase in prosociality and cooperation.

Most of the data showed an improvement in the children’s prosocial behavior after the 10-day intervention, although there were some differences depending on the relative trauma experienced. This was determined by the children’s place of birth: in Myanmar with high levels of direct trauma from violent conflict, forced migration and ******** camp life, or in the camp with lower levels of direct trauma from ******** camp life.

Compared to the camp-born children, the Myanmar-born children showed greater sensitivity to the emotional aspects of situations depicting adversity and were less inclined to offer behavioral solutions. These children also showed higher levels of generosity in tasks that required sharing and were more likely to take over for their partner when helpfulness was measured.

When helpfulness was measured, camp-born children were more likely to show their partner how to complete the task.

The collaborative research project, led by Dr. Tara Callaghan of St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, involved members of the Rohingya community, interdisciplinary researchers and representatives of global ******** rights organizations.

The Rohingya are a ******* ********* in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. After years of persecution, more than 750,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in August 2017, most of them to Bangladesh.

More information:
Tara Callaghan et al, Fostering Prosociality in ******** Children: An Intervention With Rohingya Children, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (2024).

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