Gender Differences in Prosocial Behaviour

Dr Pardeep Kumar Dr Pardeep Kumar,Isah Aliyu Abdullahi Isah Aliyu Abdullahi

doi:10.25215/0304.017

Dr Pardeep Kumar Dr Pardeep Kumar, Isah Aliyu Abdullahi Isah Aliyu Abdullahi

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https://doi.org/10.25215/0304.017

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Abstract

The objective of current research was to examine the gender differences in prosocial behaviour. Total 60 students (N = 60, 30 Males and 30 Females) participated in the current study from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. The Prosocial Personality Battery (PSB) consisting seven dimensions including social responsibility (SR), emphatic concern (EC), perspective taking (PT), personal distress (PD), other oriented moral reasoning (O), mutual concern moral reasoning (M) and self report altruism (SRA) has been used in the study to collect the data. The results revealed significant gender differences on two dimensions of prosocial personality battery, i.e. perspective taking (t = 2.04, p <.05) and other oriented moral reasoning (t = 2.01, p <.05), being females on the higher side. On rest of the five dimensions the differences were negligible falling far away from the probability level of .05. The results suggest that males and females are both almost equal on most of the prosocial behaviour dimensions. However, in case of perspective taking and mutual concern moral reasoning females are on higher side suggesting that they have better understanding of others’ mental state and they are more concerned about morality in the society.

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The objective of current research was to examine the gender differences in prosocial behaviour
In case of perspective taking and mutual concern moral reasoning females are on higher side suggesting that they have better understanding of others’ mental state and they are more concerned about morality in the society
In our contemporary world people are facing a lot of challenges especially poverty, insecurity, unemployment, terrorism, internal and external conflict, divorces, singlism, illiteracy etcetera virtually due to low prosocial behaviour or lack of social support from the family, relatives, friends and even community People are into abject poverty majority of the youths are unemployed and virtually living below one dollar (1.U.S.D $) which is one of the fundamental factor responsible for the high rate of crime and negative vices bedevilling the society

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Introduction

The objective of current research was to examine the gender differences in prosocial behaviour. The Prosocial Personality Battery (PSB) consisting seven dimensions including social responsibility (SR), emphatic concern (EC), perspective taking (PT), personal distress (PD), other oriented moral reasoning (O), mutual concern moral reasoning (M) and self report altruism (SRA) has been used in the study to collect the data. The results revealed significant gender differences on two dimensions of prosocial personality battery, i.e. perspective taking (t = 2.04, p

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