Table 3.

Partial Spearman’s rho correlations, controlling for age in months, between children’s prosocial tendencies, participation in chores, unhelpful helping, and attributed motivations for helping.

	Prosocial tendencies	Chores	Unhelpful helping
Chores	0.30∗∗∗	–	–
Unhelpful helping	-0.04	0.22∗∗∗	–
Ask	0.02	0.14∗∗	0.01
Reward	0.08	0.07	-0.01
Praise	0.12∗∗	0.21∗∗∗	0.14∗∗
Fun	0.20∗∗∗	0.32∗∗∗	0.14∗∗
Social affiliation	0.15∗∗	0.27∗∗∗	0.12∗∗
Caring	0.36∗∗∗	0.26∗∗∗	0.08

^∗∗p < 0.01; ^∗∗∗p < 0.001.