Table 1.

Instruments for assessing prosocial behavior in adolescents.

Scale	Original Authors	N Items	Dimensions	Psychometric Studies	Recent Applications
Objective Measure of Prosocial Reasoning (PROM)	Carlo et al. [7]	56 items	Hedonistic, needs-oriented, approval, stereotypic, and internalized	English [7]; Spanish [27,39]; Chinese [40]; Portuguese [41]	[42,43]
Prosocial Behavior Scale (PBS)	Caprara and Pastorelli [16]	10 items	Unidimensional	Italian [16]; Spanish [26]	[20,32]
Prosocial Tendencies Measure—Revised (PTM-R)	Carlo et al. [8]	25 items	Altruistic, compliant, emotional, dire, public and anonymous	English [8]; German [44]; Lithuanian [41]; Chinese [45]; Portuguese [46]; Spanish [30]	[38,47]
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)—Prosocial dimension	Goodman [11]	5 items	Unidimensional	English [11]; Chinese [48]; Dutch [49,50]; German [51]; Norwegian [52] Spanish [12,53,54]; French [55]; Swedish [51,56]; Cypriot Greek [51]; Italian [51]	[57,58]
Teenage Inventory of Social Skills (TISS)	Inderbitzen and Foster [10]	40 items	Prosocial behavior and asocial behavior	English [10]; Spanish [59]	[60]