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Record W4406945701 · doi:10.1080/07448481.2024.2447826

Prosocial behavior interventions implemented among undergraduate student populations: a scoping review

2025· review· en· W4406945701 on OpenAlexaff
Duncan Bayne, Katie J. Shillington

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of American College Health · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicBehavioral and Psychological Studies
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProsocial behaviorPsychological interventionPsychologyAt-risk studentsBehavior changeApplied psychologyClinical psychologyDevelopmental psychologyMedical educationMedicineSocial psychologyMathematics education

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: Undergraduate students face a multitude of unique stressors which can affect their mental health and well-being. Finding ways to promote positive mental health among students is critical. Engagement in prosocial behavior is one way to buffer against such negative mental health outcomes. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this scoping review was to determine what is known from the literature regarding the use of prosocial behavior interventions for undergraduate students' mental health and well-being. METHODS: Five databases were searched (i.e., MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Scopus, CINAHL) and articles were screened independently and simultaneously by 2 researchers. Seven articles met the eligibility criteria and were included in this review. RESULTS: Three main themes and two subthemes were identified: (1) Types of Prosocial Behaviors Employed; (2) Recipients of Prosocial Behavior; and (3) Study Design and Intervention Impact (subthemes: Intervention Design and The Impact of Prosocial Behavior Interventions on Health Outcomes). CONCLUSIONS: The findings underscore prosocial behavior as a potential strategy to promote positive health outcomes in undergraduate students.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.052
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.052
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.004
Bibliometrics0.0100.010
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.451
GPT teacher head0.592
Teacher spread0.141 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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