جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Prosocial behaviors » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the desire to help others and resilience with growth after trauma with assessing the moderating role of guilt related to trauma in people with a history of covid-19 disease in close relative. For this purpose, 189 people who had one of their relatives admitted to the special care department of the hospital due to the covid-19 disease in the last six months were selected in an accessible method and completed the post-traumatic growth, resilience, trauma related guilt and altruism questionnaires. Based on the results of multiple regression analysis, trauma related guilt did not play a moderating role in the relationship between resilience and prosocial behaviors. In contrast, trauma-related guilt had a moderating role in the relationship between post-traumatic growth and willingness to help others. The conclusion from the findings of the present study can be indicative of the role of interpersonal and intrapersonal factors in promoting adaptation and even growth of people following traumatic experiences.

The present research was conducted to clarify the causal relationship between family functioning and prosocial behaviors with the mediating role of psychological maturity. This descriptive research was correlational. Its statistical population consisted of adults aged 18 years and older, of which 436 individuals (i.e., 349 women and 87 men) were selected as the sample using the convenience sampling method. The Prosocial Tendencies Measure revised by Carlo et al. (PTM-R), the Family Assessment Device of Epstein et al. (FAD), and the Psychological Maturity scale of Mohammadkhani et al. were utilized to collect data. Given the results of the Pearson correlation test, significant positive relationships were observed between family functioning and intrinsically motivated prosocial behaviors, between the problem-solving dimensions in family functioning and extrinsically motivated prosocial behaviors, between family functioning and psychological maturity, between the social domain of psychological maturity and prosocial behaviors in emotional and dire situations. In contrast, a negative and significant relationship was revealed between psychological maturity and extrinsically motivated prosocial behaviors. The results of structural equation modeling indicated the significant mediating role of psychological maturity in the relationship between family functioning and prosocial behaviors with intrinsic motivation. Generally, it can be said that optimal family functioning can influence the psychological maturity of its members and their growth, leading individuals to adopt prosocial behaviors with internal motivation and higher levels of moral reasoning.

The purpose of this study was to comparison of effectiveness of group training anger management and psycho-social empowerment on prosocial behaviors and social adjustment of girl high school students in Tehran city.

This quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up after two months. The statistical population of this study included all the high school girl students Tehran city to 125110 people were in year academic 2020-2021 and 90 girl students by random sampling were considered as the sample size in two experimental groups (each group of 30 girl students) and control (30 girl students). The experimental groups underwent group training anger management (12 sessions 90 minutes) and psycho-social empowerment (12 sessions 90 minutes), but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. To collect data prosocial personality questionnaire (PPQ) of Penner (2002) and adjustment inventory for school students (AISS) of Sinha and Singh (1993). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 software in two sections: descriptive and inferential (analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni).

The results of the study showed that both types of treatment in post-test and follow up had a significant effect on prosocial behaviors and social adjustment of girl high school students (P<0.05).  Also, group training anger management had stronger effects in improvement of aggression and social self-efficacy (P<0.05).

  Based on the results of this study, it can be said that group training anger management and psycho-social empowerment can be used as a treatment to improvement of prosocial behaviors and social adjustment of girl high school students in Tehran city in counseling centers and psychological services

The current research aimed to test the proposed model of prosocial behaviors based on basic needs with the mediating role of online game addiction. The research method was correlation and path analysis type. The statistical population included the students of Bu Ali-Sina University in Hamadan in the academic year of 2021-2022, and a sample of 388 people was selected using the cluster random method. The research tools included the basic psychological needs of LaGuardia et al. (2000), the prosocial behaviors of Caprara et al. (2005), and addiction to online game addiction of Khazal et al. (2007) scales. To analyze the data, the path analysis method was used using SPSS version 22 and LISREL version 8.8 software. The results showed that the proposed research model had a good fit with the data. The results showed that the direct effect of basic psychological needs on game addiction was negative and significant and on prosocial behaviors was positive and significant (p<0.01). The effect of game addiction on prosocial behaviors was negative and significant (p<0.01). Also, the results showed that game addiction had a significant mediating role in the relationship between basic psychological needs and prosocial behavior (p<0.01). According to the results of the research, basic needs can play a role in reducing addiction to online games, and reducing the amount of reliance on games is effective in improving prosocial behaviors.

Low self-efficacy and aggression are found in all cultures and are the most common kind of problems in students, which cause discomfort and distress in others; thus, they disrupt the mental health of the community. This study aims to investigate the comparison of effectiveness of group training anger management and psycho-social empowerment on aggression and social self-efficacy.

This experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up two month. The statistical population of this study included all the female students high school Tehran city to 125110 people were in year academic 2020-2021 and 90 female students by convenience sampling were considered as the sample size in two experimental groups and on group control (each group of 30 female students). The experimental groups underwent group training anger management and psycho-social empowerment (12 sessions 90 minutes in each training), but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. To collect data aggression questionnaire and adolescents social self-efficacy scale. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 software in two sections: descriptive and inferential (analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni).

The results of the study showed that both types of treatment in post-test and follow up had a significant effect on reducing aggression and increasing social self-efficacy of female high school students (p < 0.05). In addition, the results showed that group anger management training was more effective than psycho-social empowerment group in reducing aggression and increasing social self-efficacy (p < 0.05).

It can be concluded that, anger training anger management and psycho-social empowerment can be considered as a supportive and effective tool for reducing aggression and increasing social self-efficacy and used for adolescents in particular.

The purpose of this study was to determine the mediating role of self-concept in the relation between attachment to parents and peers with prosocial behaviors. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the study included all the first grade female students of the seven to ninth grades of the schools in one and two regions of Hamedan to 21690, among them two-step random sampling according to recommendation of Mishel 1993, the ratio of 10 to 20 subjects per observed variable and Guadagnoli & Velicer (1998), a minimum of 450 people and considering the probability of a sample loss, 570 people among the schools in Shahed 1, Shahed 2, Forough School and Fatemeh Al-Zahra School, two schools from each district and from each school 4 classes were selected. The study tool was the inventory of parent and peer attachment by Armsden & Greenberg (1987), self-concept questionnaire by Sarswat 1984 and prosocial personality battery by Penner, Fritzsche, Craiger, & Freifeld (1995). After exclusion of 48 distortion questionnaires and 2 outlier data, data were analyzed using structural equation modeling method. In this study, the indirect path coefficient of attachment to the peers with prosocial behaviors (β= 0.064, P= 0.001), attachment to the father with prosocial behaviors (β= 0.033, P= 0.018) and attachment to the mother with prosocial behaviors (β= 0.022, P= 0.073) were positive and significant. It is suggested to reducing the antisocial behaviors in schools and increasing prosocial behaviors on improving the self-concept of adolescents and restoring their attachment to parents and peers be focused.  

Abstract The main purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship of personality traits, happiness and general health with prosocial behaviors among shahrekord’s martyrs and veterans university students. For achieve to the research aims 290 university students were selected by categorical randomize sampeling, Questionnaires which used in this research were short form of personality traits(Bou & mitsrifris, 2007), Happiness Oxford (Augril, 2001) General Health (Goldberg and GHQ, 1979) and prosocial behaviors (carlo et al, 2003). Results of stepwise regression showed that happiness and agreeableness explained 8 percent of anonymous prosocial behaviors, extraversion and general health explained 6 percent of public-altruistic prosocial behaviors, agreeableness, emotional instability and extraversion explained 5 percent of emotional prosocial behaviors, conscientiousness explained 2 percent of dire prosocial behaviors and agreeableness, extraversion and general health explained 13 percent of compliant pro-social behaviors. Therefore, the role of personality traits, happiness and general health in prediction of prosocial behaviors, it is useful to consider these variables to improve prosocial behaviors in university students.