TABLE 2.

Patterns of Age-Related Change in the Major Prosocial responding Measures

Questionnaires
Helpingb	Cubic*
Sympathyc	None
Perspective takingc	Linear I**
Personal distressc	Lin D**
Moral judgment
Level 1d	None
Level 2d	Linear D**, cubic**
Level 3d	Linear I*
Level 4d	Linear I**; cubic**, Sex × Linear*
Level 5d	None
Composite score	Linear I**, cubic**

Note. I = linear increase with age; d = linear decrease with age; cubic = cubic trend; none = no significant age trend. See Table 1 and/or text for means to interpret trends.

^aT7, T8, T10, T11, and T12 were used for helping, sympathy, perspective taking, and personal distress. T7, T8, T10, and T12 were used for all prosocial moral judgment measures.

^bShortened version of Rushton et al.’s (1981) scale.

^cFrom the IRI (Davis, 1983).

^dThe levels are proportion scores.

^**p <.01.

^*p <.05.