Relationship between Teachers’ Prosocial Behavior and Students’ Psychosocial Functioning at Secondary School Level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

This descriptive co-relational study aimed to determine the relationship between teachers' Prosocial behavior and students' Psychosocial functioning at the secondary school level. The population included all the teachers and students at the secondary school level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. A sample of 385 teachers and 385 students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was selected by using Multi-stage random sampling technique. The researcher used “Pro-socialness Scale", and “Psychosocial functioning scale", developed by Caprera et al. (2005), and Marx et al. (2020) respectively for data collection. The data were analyzed by using statistical tools like Mean, Standard Deviation, and Correlation. It was found that there existed a positive relationship between teachers' Prosocial behavior and students' Psychosocial functioning. It is recommended that training and workshop need to be provided to develop Prosocial behaviour in teachers. Further, comprehensive psychosocial programs must be included in secondary school curricula, aiming to help students develop their emotional, social, intelligence and interpersonal skills.