Adolescents Prosocial Behavior And Its Relationships To Parenting Style And Peer Pressure Among Addis Ababa High School Students

The current study investigated prosocial behavior, parenting style and peer pressure of adolescentrnstudents in secondary school. One hundred fifty adolescents (Mean age = 15.69 years, 48.7%rnfemales) measured their own prosocial behaviors, their perceptions of parenting styles of theirrnparents used and positive and negative peer pressure they experienced from best friend(s).rnQuestionnaires were used to collect data. Quantitative analyses (both descriptive and inferentialrnstatistics) were used to analyze the obtained data. The study shows that, altruism prosocialrnbehavior is the most dominant type of prosocial behavior. There was no significant genderrndifference in overall prosocial behavior. The results further indicated that there was a significantrngender difference in the parenting style. However, there was no significant mean difference inrnprosocial behaviors among adolescents from different parenting style background. Whereas therernwas significant mean difference in some prosocial behaviors of adolescents due to positive andrnnegative peer pressures they experienced from best friend(s). The current study has importantrnimplications for parents, schools, government and non government sectors and practitioners whornare concerned about promoting adolescents’ positive behaviors and discouraging negativernbehaviors

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