Public Practice of Religion as Predictor of Prosocial Behaviour

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Helping those in need is viewed as part of being religious. Interestingly, recent studies found that helping is heightened mostly during Sundays. On that note, there is still a need to look closely on what is in religion that serves to facilitate increased helping during Sundays. Through a survey, the present study aimed to examine into the five dimensions of religion - intellectual dimension, ideology, public practice, private practice, and religious as predictors of one’s willingness to help an out-group. Results indicated that public practice of religion predicted willingness to help and thus provide an implication to what is commonly called as Sunday.

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Jame Bryan Lamberte Batara, University of San Carlos

I am a faculty member and the research coordinator of the Department of Psychology, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines. I am also a faculty member and the research committee head of the Department of General Education and Mission of the same institution. At the university level, I am one of the representatives for School of Arts and Sciences Research Council and a member of the University Research Ethics Committee. As a licensed psychometrician, I am a member and a regular research presentor of the Psychological Association of the Philippines. I obtained my bachelor and masters degree in Social Psychology at University of San Carlos and earned units in PhD in Social Psychology at University of the Philippines – Diliman.

Outside of my university functions, I am also invited as a reviewer of journals recognized by the Philippines’ Commission on Higher Education namely University of the Visayas Journal and Philippine Journal of Psychology, and international peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology, and Interpersona: An International Journal of Personal Relationships. I conduct group dynamics activities to school-based organizations and provide assistance to medical and social science researchers in their research data analyses.

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2020-02-11

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Batara, J. B. L. (2020). Public Practice of Religion as Predictor of Prosocial Behaviour. PRISM, 23(1). Retrieved from https://norsu.edu.ph/norsuprism/index.php/norsuprism/article/view/129

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2018)

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