Pro-Social Behaviour and Social Well-being of Adults

Pro-social behaviouristhe behaviour of helping anyone, despite of relationship withfamily members or strangers. It also includes fulfilling the social responsibilities and performing one’s duties on time. Social well-being shows social acceptance, responsibility, satisfaction, feeling of belongingness etc. of persons towards the society. Many studies have shown positive effect of prosocial behaviour onwell being. The aim of the present research paper wasto assessthe relationship between pro-social behaviour and socialwell-being of office staff and to see the difference between males andfemalestowards pro-social behaviour and social well-being. The datawas collected from 120 office staff (60 females and 60 males) working in different departments at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Forthis purpose questionnaire on Social Well-Being and questionnaire onPro-Social Behaviour were used to know the correlation and difference between the pro-social behaviour and social well-being of adults. The results of the study indicated slightly negative correlation between pro-social behaviour and social well-being of adults and it was found that age and income were significantfactorsaffecting socialwell-being of adults.