Relationship between empathy level, emotional health and prosocial behavior

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation among empathy, positive emotion and prosocial behav - ior of college students. A questionnaire survey was conducted in colleges and universities across the country by using convenient sampling method, and a total of 145 subjects were investigated. In this study, empathy scale, positive emotion scale and college students’ prosocial behavior scale were used to investigate the rela - tionship between them and prosocial behavior. At the same time, gender, origin, only child and other factors are also considered, and the following conclusions are obtained: empathy affects prosocial behavior tendency. The higher the level of empathy, the higher the motivation of helping others and altruistic behavior, and the stronger the prosocial behavior tendency. Emotional health level will affect individual prosocial behavior ten - dency. The results show that the tendency of prosocial behavior is stronger when the positive emotion of indi - vidual