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BAR-TAL, DANIEL, and RAvIv, AMIRHAM. Consistency of Helping-Behavior Measures. CmL DEVELOPMENT, 1979, 50, 1235-1238. The present study examines the consistency of various methods of measuring helping behavior. 280 sixth graders completed 2 different sociometric questionnaires regarding their helping behavior and filled out 2 more questionnaires expressing their behavioral intentions to help; their 7 teachers were asked to rate the students' helping behavior. The correlations among the different measures were found to be significantly high. In addition, partial correlations among the measures were performed, controlling for intelligence; these reduced the size of the correlations somewhat, in most of the cases. Finally, these original measures of helping behavior were correlated with sociometric measures of altruistic behavior and behavioral intention administered 2 years later. The results showed considerably high correlations between the new sociometric measure and the earlier measures and a lack of relationship between the new behavioral-intentions measure and the other measures taken 2 years previously.
Bar‐Tal et al. (1979) studied this question.