Relation between Spirituality and Religions with Prosocial Behavior Toward Different Targets: Stranger, Friend and Family

BELÉN MESURADO; LUCAS RODRIGUEZ ; RICARDO CRESPO; JUAN FRANCISCO FRANCK; OMAR RODRIGUEZ

Yokohama

Congreso; 31st International Congress of Psychology; 2016

International Union of Psychological Science

The present study examines whether spirituality and religion are associated with prosocial behavior towarddifferent target stranger, friend and family. One hundred Argentinean emergent adults and adults (M age= 35.07;SD = 17.05; 42 males 42%) participated in this study by completing VIA Subscale spirituality (Peterson andSeligman, 2004), Perception of the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Aspects of Religious Attendance (VanCappellen, et al., 2014), and Prosocial Behavior (Padilla-Walker & Christensen, 2011). We carried out threeBlock lineal regressions to test our objectives. The results have shown that both spirituality and religions(Perception of the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Aspects of Religious Attendance) are associated in a positiveway with prosocial behavior toward different targets.