Orientation towards helping others and its relationship to utilitarian thinking among graduate students.

Abstract

  The research aims to identify:

1.Orientation towards helping others among postgraduate students.

2.Utilitarian thinking among graduate students

3.The correlation between the orientation towards helping others and utilitarian   thinking among graduate students.

4.Differences in the correlation between the orientation towards helping others and utilitarian thinking among graduate students, according to the gender variable  (males – females).

To achieve the objectives of the current research, the (Nadler, 2000) scale for an orientation towards helping others was adopted, which consists of (16) items in its initial form, distributed over the two dimensions, with (8) items for the first dimension, and (8) for the first dimension, Items for the second dimension, with five-point response alternatives, which are (always applies to me, often applies to me, sometimes applies to me, rarely applies to me, never applies to me), and the scale (Hussein, 2011) for utilitarian thinking was adopted, which consists of (20) items with alternatives. Triple response is (A, B, C), After verifying the psychometric properties of the scales, they were applied to a sample of (100) male and female students, with (50) male and (50) female postgraduate students. They were selected randomly, and after collecting the sample answers, the answer forms were subjected to statistical analysis using the Statistical Portfolio for Psychological Sciences (SPSS)

The search results resulted in the following: In light of the above results, he made a number of recommendations and proposals for new studies.