Helping Behaviors and the Perception of Helping Intentions among Employees at Oromia Regional Offices, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dawit Mekonen (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hawi Tarekegn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-17T06:54:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-17T06:54:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The goal of this research aimed at investigating helping behaviours and intentions among employees at Oromia regional offices, Ethiopia. Employees were selected proportionally from six randomly chosen Oromia regional offices by contemplating the distribution of gender in each office. The questionnaire included Prosocial Tendencies Measure–Revised (PTM-R), Prosocial Behavioural Intentions Scale (PBIS) and Empathic Concern questionnaire in addition to socio-demographic questionnaire. 263 study participants—167 men and 96 women—completely filled the distributed questionnaire. Collected data were examined with inferential as well as descriptive statistics. This study's results suggested that respondents considerably demonstrated dire prosocial activity in reaction to the crisis or emergency caused by COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing drought, political instability and conflicts in the country. They also highly engaged in compliant prosocial acts in response to requests made either verbally or nonverbally by those who were affected by the aforementioned situations. Females outperformed males in terms of emotional, anonymous, public, and overall prosocial behaviours. The employees' religious practises, marital status, educational background, and monthly income all had a significant impact on their public prosocial behaviours. Likewise, anonymous prosocial behaviours were reliant on marriage, education level and monthly income; emotional prosocial behaviours were determined by religion, education and income, while dire prosocial behaviours were correlated with respondents' religious experiences and monthly income. All prosocial behaviour subtypes and intentions were strongly and positively connected, except for the fact that both compliant and dire prosocial acts were not substantially connected with public and altruistic prosocial behaviours. The study participants' prosocial behaviours were significantly and positively connected with their prosocial intentions and empathetic concern. Moreover, the respondents' empathy for others was a positive predictor of their readiness to help others. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2973 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | Helping Behaviors and the Perception of Helping Intentions among Employees at Oromia Regional Offices, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Thesis |