Prosociality and social responsibility. The case of students of a confessional University in Chile

Prosociality is of greater interest in recent decades due to events that have questioned the socially responsible behavior of decision-makers in various organizations. The objective of this research is to describe statistically significant differences in prosocial attitudes through sociodemographic characteristics among students at a confessional university in Chile. A quan-titative, descriptive, and non-experimental cross-sectional study was carried out. A non-probabilistic convenience sample of stu-dents of the last three years of studies at a confessional uni-versity located in south-central Chile was considered. The short scale of prosocial behavior was used, and a descriptive anal- ysis, exploratory factor analysis, and inferential analysis were performed. Prosocial attitudes are composed of three new di¬mensions, which are grouped according to the variables scale of prosocial behavior: comfort and commitment to others, empathy and detachment, and solidarity and help. Gender and religion stand out as statistically significant variables. Future research should consider a more diverse study group, including both de¬nominational and non-denominational universities. Likewise, it would be convenient to study the stability of prosocial attitudes throughout the life cycles and their relationship with other tran-scendent variables such as personality and self-efficacy

• Autores: Severino-González, Pedro; Mendivelso Carrillo, Harold; Suarez-Peñaranda, Katherine; Parra Bello, Fernando; Muñoz-Huaracán, Sandra; Romero-Argueta, José; Sarmiento Peralta, Giusseppe Geraldes; Campos-Andaur, Paulina; Kinney, Ian Scott
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional UDCA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.udca.edu.co:11158/5400
• Acceso en línea: https://repository.udca.edu.co/handle/11158/5400
• Palabra clave: Responsabilidad social de la educación; Prosocialidad
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.es