The Effect of Cultural Values on the Tendency to Altruistic Behaviors of High School Students of Juybar city

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1 Graduated with a master's degree in sociology, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

10.22051/ijosed.2024.46227.1034

Abstract

Altruism is a social action whose current and sari is a sign of social connection, and it contributes vitally to the durability of social order, prevention, control and treatment of social issues, as well as the development and excellence of moral virtues. Therefore, the spread of such an important value among social classes, especially students, is essential and fruitful. How prevalent is altruism among students? And what kind of cultural values is this important? The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of individualistic and collectivist cultural values on the tendency to altruistic behaviors of 1736 male high school students of Juibar city. Using the Cochran formula and cluster random sampling method, 320 students were selected and by using the standard questionnaires of Carlo and Randall (2003) to measure the altruism tendency of these students and Sivadas et al. (2008) to measure Their individualistic and collectivist cultural values, the desired data were collected. The findings showed that the cultural values of two poles are not opposite and we are witnessing the mixing of individualistic and collectivist cultural values with a relative increase in individualism. The results of the regression analysis also indicated that among the variables of cultural values; The variable of individualistic cultural values has no effect on the tendency towards altruistic behavior of these students, but the collectivist cultural values have a positive effect on the tendency towards altruistic behavior and dimensions of altruistic behavior (submissive, critical situation, emotional and anonymous) of these students. had.

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Social-Economic Development Studies
Volume 1, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
October 2023
Pages 127-150

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