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Effect Of Gender And Locality Of Altruistic Behavior Among Adults
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
We have
considered whether helping could be a genetically transmitted product of
evolution. But perhaps helping ruin in families rather than through the
whole human race. Some individuals have a stronger genetically based
prosperity to keep than do others. One of the classic puzzle about
social behavior is why human perform action that keep society.
In 1944, a young Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg was sent into
Baudapest, Hungary, with instructions from the Nazis. Wallenberg was an
imaginative young man whose heroes were Charlie Chaplin and Mark
brothers. Wellenberg decided to collect assortment of official-cooking
Hungarcain documents, such as driver’s license and tax receipts, and try
to pass them off to the German as “Swedish†protective “passportsâ€. In a
typical act of creative heroism, he dimmed? On top of a moving train
carrying hundreds of Jews to the death camps. He then ran along the
roof, dropping the passport through the air vent.
Finally, he
ordered the train to stop and release all the “Swedish citizensâ€. Raoul
eventually saved more than 100,000 women, men and children through
creative but exceptionally risked actions as (Folge man 1944 Wellenberg,
1990). Another example of altruism is that of Suzu Valadez, the woman
who bring food and supplies to people living near the mellican garbage
dump. Altruism is a voluntary help fullness that is motivated by
concern about the responsibility of personal reward (Midlarsky Kahana
1944).
Altruism as a prosocial behavior is voluntary action
that benefits another person. Prosocial behavior can include;
comforting, helping, rescuing sharing, and co-operating, (Elsenberg
1992). In general, prosocial children have parents who are nuturant and
supportive, often providing a model of prosocial behavior Zahn and Smith
(1992). For instance individual who were active in the civil right
movement during the 1950’s and 1960’s were likely to have parents who
had vigorously worked for social cases in previous decades (Elsenberg
1992). Batson (1995) aggress that altruism is often selfishly motivated.
However, people are sometimes purely altruistic and not the least but
selfish. Batson (1995) proposes that we often help other people because
we experience empathy, which means that we feel the same pain,
suffering, or other emotion that someone else feels for example, you may
feel empathy for a friend who did not get the job he hoped for.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated gender and locality on altruistic behavior among adults. A total of 100 participants comprising 50 males (25 rural and 25 urban), 50 females (25 rural and 25 urban) were used. The participants who were within the age range of 25-55 years has a mean age of 41 years. A 15 tem questionnaire designed to measure-altruistic behavior was used. A 2 x 2 factorial design was adopted based on 2 levels of gender as factor; male/female, and 2 level of locality as a factor; Rural/Urb ... Continue reading---
