摘要:The present study was designed to investigate the effect of altruistic TV viewing and verbal training on the altruistic behavior of preschoolers. The subjects of this study were a total of 56 boys and 57 girls from a kindergarten in Kwachon,Kyung-gi do. The subjects were assigned to one of three conditions : in the first condition subjects were shown video tapes designed to portray prosocial themes (TV modeling group);in the second condition subjects saw the video tapes in addition to verbal training (TV modeling plus verbal training group);in the third condition subjects received neither TV modeling nor verbal training (control group). Statistical analysis was by ANOVA and Scherre′ test. Significant differences were found in altruistic behavior between the TV modeling and the TV modeling with verbal training groups..