Last two decades, various studies have been carried out to examine
virtues and their relations to religiosity and positive health
appearances such as happiness, wellbeing and life satisfaction.
The emerging of positive psychology has cultivated the spreading
of studies on the relationship between variables mentioned above.
This paper investigates the relationship between helping behaviors,
religiosity and life satisfaction on the case of Turkish Muslim
sample. A total 230 participants were recruited from different districts
of Istanbul (Turkey) using non-random snowball sampling
techniques in December 2016. Among the participants sampled,
47% (N=108) are men and 53% (N=122) women. Ages of participants
range between 15 and 70 and mean age is 28.5 ( SD =10.8).
In the current study, “Brief Islamic Religiosity Scale” and “Empathic
Inclination Measure” , “Helping Behaviors Scale” and “Scale
for Satisfaction with Life” are applied to the sample. According
to regression findings, religiosity has a positive effect on ‘helping
behaviors’ and ‘life satisfaction’. Findings also indicated that
empathy and religiosity are mediating factor on the relationship
between helping and life satisfaction. Implications of these results
and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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