Social Responsibility as a Predictor of Altruistic Personality among Adults

Social responsibility and altruistic behavior seems to be a part of human nature but in so many contexts it will be vary in individual. Altruistic behavior makes altruistic personality. Present study was aimed to explore the predictive relationship between social responsibility and altruistic personality. Randomly selected a sample of 150 (63 males and 87 females) adults. The Altruistic Personality Scale (Rushton, Chrisjohn, & Fekken, 1981) and social responsibility scale subscale of Prosocial Behavior Battery (Penner, 2002) were used in present research. Results indicate that there is positive correlation between social responsibility and altruistic personality. Regression analysis reveals that socially responsibility had significant impact on altruistic personality Research results also indicate that significant gender differences on Altruistic Personality but no gender differences on socially responsibility among adults.