Aunque la relación entre empatía y prosocialidad viene siendo estudiada desde hace años prevalece aún una importante indefinición conceptual e incluso de resultados. Este trabajo pretende aportar algo de luz a la relación entre ambos conceptos y otras variables del contexto social en una muestra de adolescentes. Un total de 513 adolescentes, 221 chicos y 292 chicas de edades comprendidas entre los 13 y los 19 años cumplimentaron un cuestionario que incluía medidas sobre empatía, conducta prosocial, y aspectos relacionados con las variables familiares y de relación con los iguales. Entre los resultados obtenidos podemos destacar la relación existente entre conducta prosocial y empatía disposicional, y entre estas dos variables y las relaciones con la familia y con el grupo de los iguales. Así mismo, y en concordancia con abundante literatura científica, hallamos mayores niveles de prosocialidad y empatía en las chicas que en los chicos.
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