Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• reyhane rahimi ¹
• shirin rashidi ²

¹ Iran

² philosophy

Abstract

Helping, which is one of the types of prosocial behavior, refers to a voluntary action or activity that a person shows in order to help others. In this research, the goal was to build a valid and reliable tool to measure the helping structure. This research is of a descriptive-survey type and the statistical population studied were psychology and educational sciences students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in 1401-1402, who were selected through a multi-stage sampling method to the size of 242 of this population. After developing questionnaire, internal consistency examined through Cronbach's alpha coefficient and its construct validity through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Factor analysis identified 5 factors including voluntary help, help to family and friends, help to the relatives and strangers, small help and temporary help. Also, the results showed that people have a greater desire to help their family and friends, which is consistent with the existing evolutionary theories in this field. The current research was conducted on students and cannot be generalized to other strata, so it is recommended that this tool be implemented in other strata and other age groups and its psychometric properties should be studied.

Keywords

• Helping
• prosocial behavior
• factor analysis
• construct validity
• internal consistency