Pro-Social Behaviour Of High School Teachers

Abstract

Prosocial behavior is a voluntary one with utmost intention to do for the benefit of others with set of actions in terms of helping others, sharing what ones have, donating to the needy one, co-operating and volunteering in all activities without personal gain.  It is well known that teacher is not only pivotal center for the transformer of knowledge, character, value, but its play a vital role and model for the educand for developing all necessary qualities. The prosociality concept teaches us the nature of being kindness with others and the nature of existence of pros-sociality among the school teachers is need for shaping the educand in the present and fastest scenario. This concept and it values would be promoted among the students without compramisation at any cost. As a teacher, the investigator is very much anxious to know about how the present level of pro-social behaviour and its influencing factor which is enough to handle the students with techno atmosphere at the high school level. So a study is designed to conduct on pro-social behaviour to a sample of 250 participants as high school teachers who are randomly selected from Government high schools in Namakkal and Salem Districts of Tamilnadu, India through simple survey method. RameshChelvans’ Pro-Social Behaviour Scale (2018) was five point scale, developed and validated by the investigator was employed to measure the pro-social behaviour with respect to educational qualification as demographic variable. The descriptive analysis revealed that the majority of the school teachers (55.20 %) have average pro-social behaviour. The differential analysis has shown that different levels of pro-social behaviour were found as determinant factor and educational qualification has no significant influence on the pro-social behaviour in total and it dimensions including behaviour towards students, colleagues, and family whereas significant influence on the behaviour towards work, parents, and towards society of high school teachers. It is very high time to promote and nourish this more valuable pro-social behaviour among the teachers through pre-service, inservice and internship programmes without delay.