Prosocial Behaviour and its Relevant Factors among Undergraduates

Yongmei Hou (), Que Zheng and Zhongyi Zheng

American Journal of Education and Learning, 2021, vol. 6, issue 1, 16-27

Abstract: To explore the present status of prosociality among undergraduates and explore its major relevant factors. A stratified random sampling was used to select 1109 undergrauates from 10 full-time colleges in Guangdong province. They were investigated with Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM), Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) , Moral Disengagement Questionnaire (MDQ), Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). The total scores of PTM, IRI, MDQ and SSRS were (53.8±29.1), (65.5±14.4), (39.4±10.2) and (31.0±13.6), respectively. The result of multiple stepwise linear regression showed that 10 factors, such as the total score of IRI, the total score of SSRS, nationality, religion, part time job, grade, origin, love experience, major category and gender, were postively related with the total score of PTM (β =0.115 to 0.708, all P <.05), family monthly income and the total score of MDQ were nagatively related with the total score of PTM (β = -0.352, -0.577; both P<.05). Conclusion Most of the undergraduates showed the intermedius level of prosocial behavior, which was closely related to such factors as family rearing, community cultural atmosphere, school education and the personality characteristics of the undergraduates.

Keywords: Undergraduates; Prosocial behavior; Status; Relevant factors; Questionnaire investigaion; Multiple stepwise linear Regression. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/ajel/article/view/92/90 (application/pdf)
http://onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/ajel/article/view/92/114 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:onl:ajoeal:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:16-27:id:92

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in American Journal of Education and Learning from Online Science Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Pacharapa Naka ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).