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Impact of Helping Attitude Exercises on Building Helping Attitude among Adolescent Students
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Helping attitude is an established noble behavior or the degree of the concern for the welfare of the others with regard or disregards of rewards. The present paper is an attempt to focus on the role of helping attitude exercises on building helping attitude among adolescent students. Helping attitude has very significant implications on the social and subjective well- being. Despite such significance, positive trait like helping attitude has been getting less importance in scientific psychological study. So, present paper is an effort to bridge such gaps in Indian context. Researches, conducted in the field of Positive Psychology support that traits like helping attitude reflects the practice of human strengths in social phenomenon as well as ethical strength of a society. Therefore, it is necessary to develop certain skills to build helping attitude in a scientific way. The researcher developed certain exercises of building helping attitude and experimented on a group of adolescent students. It was evident from the present research that helping attitude can be significantly taught and learnt through these exercises.
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Helping Attitude, Helping Attitude Exercise, Adolescent.
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