Social Psychology Research

The Model Of Relationship Between Aggression and Social Perspective Taking With Pro-social Behavior through mediator Role Social Trust

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

sattar saidi 1
majid saffarinia 2
hamzah ahmadian 3

1 Department of psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Psychology,, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract
Abstract
Introduction: Teachers play the modeling role in many times. Many theorists have shown that prosocial behavior is affected by exposure to appropriate models. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between aggression and social perspective taking with prosocial behavior through the mediating role of social trust in teachers.
Method: The research design is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of all teachers working at schools in Sanandaj in 2017. in this study 425 techers were selected through categorical random sampling method. The participants completed the aggression (zahedifar, 1196), social perspective taking (mohaghegi and et al, 2016), pro-social behavior (penner, 2002), social trust(saffarinia and sharif, 2010) questionnaires. Data analysis was conducted by AMOS software using path analysis method.
Results: The results showed that the final model has good fitness with the data. The path analysis model has determined that pro-social behavior is influenced by aggression and social perspective taking directly and indirectly through social trust. also, all research hypothesis are conformed.
Conclusion: Considering the significant effect of aggression and social perspective taking on pro-social behavior and the possibility of manipulation and training of these variables, the results of this study have implications for promoting community mental health.

Keywords

Aggression
Social Perspective Taking
Pro-social Behavior
Social Trust
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