Religiosity, Empathy, and Its Relationship with Prosocial Behaviour, The Mediating Role of Peer's Relationship

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the role of religiosity and empathy in elucidating prosocial behavior's development in light of peers' relationships among Muslim adolescents in Jordan through testing a proposed model that represents the relationship among variables. The study sample consisted of 380 first- and second-year students at the University of Jordan during the academic year 2023-2024 who were selected using a simple random sampling technique. The results revealed that religiosity and empathy predicted prosocial behavior. Peers' relationships were predicted by both religiosity and empathy, which in turn predicted prosocial behaviors.