Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior and its Relationships to Parenting Style and Peer Pressure Among Addis Ababa High School Students
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The current study investigated prosocial behavior, parenting style and peer pressure of adolescent
students in secondary school. One hundred fifty adolescents (Mean age = 15.69 years, 48.7%
females) measured their own prosocial behaviors, their perceptions of parenting styles of their
parents used and positive and negative peer pressure they experienced from best friend(s).
Questionnaires were used to collect data. Quantitative analyses (both descriptive and inferential
statistics) were used to analyze the obtained data. The study shows that, altruism prosocial
behavior is the most dominant type of prosocial behavior. There was no significant gender
difference in overall prosocial behavior. The results further indicated that there was a significant
gender difference in the parenting style. However, there was no significant mean difference in
prosocial behaviors among adolescents from different parenting style background. Whereas there
was significant mean difference in some prosocial behaviors of adolescents due to positive and
negative peer pressures they experienced from best friend(s). The current study has important
implications for parents, schools, government and non government sectors and practitioners who
are concerned about promoting adolescents’ positive behaviors and discouraging negative
behaviors
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High school students