PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF ADOLESCENT STUDENTS INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES IN WEST BENGAL

Prosocial behaviour is a voluntary social act that helps others or benefits society. Some examples of Prosocial Behaviour such as- helping others, sharing others, comforting others, volunteering, cooperating etc. The focus of this research is to develop an instrument that measures attitudes of Prosocial Behaviour of adolescent students. Mainly the Prosocial Behaviour Scale was developed for later adolescent students who are in study class 11 and have an average age of 16 to 17 years. The work was initiated with a total of five research objectives. Based on these objectives, a total of five research hypotheses have been designed and tested through different statistical techniques. Three of these hypotheses were tested using the t-test and two were tested using the ANOVA. In this present study, the descriptive survey method and quantitative approach have been used. A total of 144 samples were composed, representing the entire population. A sample of Higher Secondary school students was taken from Uttar Dinajpur and Birbhum Districts of the targeted population. This study's results indicated that there are differences in the various perspectives of prosocial behaviour, and there are also no differences in the various perspectives of prosocial behaviour among adolescent students.