Prediction of Pro-social Behavior Using the Social Trust and Social Perspective Taking

Subject Areas : Educational

sattar saidi ¹ , hamzeh ahmadian ² , majid saffarinia ³

1 - PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
3 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Tehran South, Payam Noor university, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2017-09-19 Accepted : 2019-05-20 Published : 2019-09-23

Keywords: social perspective taking, Social trust, Pro-social Behavior,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to anticipate pro-social behavior using social trust and social perspective taking. The statistical population of the study included teachers of all educational levels of Sanandaj city in 2017. in this study 425(230 women and 195 men) techers participated. They were selected based on categorical random sampling method. The participants completed the Pro-social Behavior (penner, 2002), Social Trust (saffarinia and sharif, 2009) and Social Perspective Taking (mohaghegi and et al, 2016) questionnaires. The results of regression analysis showed that three components of social perspective taking variable including perception of the views of others, putting self in the place of others and respect for differences, and two components of social trust variable including cooperative tendencies and honesty can be significantly predict pro-social personality (P≤0/05) and explain 17% of variance.

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