This meta-analytic review examined the effectiveness of the interventions for promoting adolescents’ prosocial behavior, and aimed to explain variability in the effectiveness. Thirty-three studies that used interventions for prosociality targeting adolescents and compared with a control group or had a pre-post comparison were included in the analyses. Across all the studies, the prosocial behavior interventions for adolescents had a small, beneficial effect on promoting prosocial behavior (g = 0.442; 95% CI [0.240, 0.644]). The results of moderator analyses showed that the interventions designed to increase social competence had a larger effect than those seeking to prevent problem behavior, and that the interventions that used reports by others had a larger effect than those using self-reports. These findings indicated that the prosocial behavior interventions promoted adolescents’ prosocial behavior, but with a small effect, and that the effectiveness varied depending on the objectives of intervention and the measurement types. However, this result seemed to be slightly influenced by publication bias, thus the interpretations of the results should be careful. Directions for future research and implications for educators implementing prosocial behavior interventions during adolescence are discussed.

这项荟萃分析综述探讨了干预措施在促进青少年亲社会行为方面的有效性，旨在解释有效性的差异。分析包括33项研究，这些研究采用了针对青少年的社会性干预措施，并与对照组进行了比较，或者进行了事前比较。在所有研究中，针对青少年的亲社会行为干预措施对促进亲社会行为均产生了很小的有益影响（g = 0.442; 95％CI [0.240，0.644]。主持人分析的结果表明，旨在提高社会能力的干预措施要比那些试图防止问题行为的干预措施产生更大的影响，并且使用他人报告的干预措施要比使用自我报告的干预措施更大。这些发现表明亲社会行为干预促进了青少年的亲社会行为，但效果很小，并且其有效性随干预目标和测量类型的不同而不同。但是，该结果似乎受出版偏见的影响很小，因此对结果的解释应谨慎。讨论了未来研究的方向以及对教育工作者在青春期实施亲社会行为干预的意义。