Development of Altruistic Personality Questionnaire: A Short Version

Abstract

In the present study a short version tool of Altruistic Personality Questionnaire (43 items) was developed. In order to make shorter version, the original tool (Altruistic Personality Questionnaire) was administered to 387 participants (n=43). First items analysis was carried out and tool was reduced to 27 items. In order to check the factor structure, exploratory factor analysis was carried out and three factors emerged out. For establishing the psychometric properties of the test, simple sample size of 43, Males (N=13, M=88.30 Age = 25-40 SD =15.60) AND FEMALES = 30 M= 96.60 Age =25-40 SD =15.13) of different age groups were collected from DIPR AND DIPAS. The internal consistency reliability (0.869) was found to be high. To establish the concurrent and construct validity, it was correlated with the Adult prosocialness Scale (.390) Self Altruistic Scale (.334) Empathy Scale (.172) and interpersonal Reactivity Index Scale (.413). In this study analyzed there is significant difference between male and female in prosocial behavior.