Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Islamic Education, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
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Abstract
Emotional helping is a type of active emotional action that emphasizes openness to the concerns of others and trying to improve their emotions. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the emotional helping questionnaire. Research method was descriptive-survey and the statistical population included psychology and educational sciences students of Allameh Tabataba'i University in 1402-1401, among whom 200 were selected by multi-stage sampling method. Based on the Research literature and opinion of experts, a questionnaire was designed, with 11 items in 3 areas of "empathy", "filling loneliness" and "giving motivation and hope" and in 4 levels including family members, friends, acquaintances/ Family and strangers,. Then, internal consistency examined through Cronbach's alpha coefficient and its construct validity through confirmatory factor analysis. The result showed that the model have a good fit with the data. It seems that showing any helping behavior is strongly influenced by the ratio of the target audience to the helping person. Also, considering the acceptability coefficient of the items, it can be seen that in each of the components, the highest average belongs to family members and then to friends, and family/acquaintances and strangers are in the next categories. The reliability of the questionnaire was also measured and confirmed through retesting. Since the current research was conducted on students, it suggested that this tool be implemented in other population and age groups and its psychometric properties should be examined.
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