An unweighted and two weighted measures of children's giving were used in two experiments designed to enhance children's prosocial development. Since the weighted measures take indirectly into account the subjects' underlying motives for giving, they are supposed to be more valid indicators of the underlying processes than the unweighted measures which are traditionally used in studies on children's prosocial development. The paper describes the rationale for the construction of the unweighted and weighted measures, presents data on test-retest reliability and validity as well as treatment outcomes for the two experiments.
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