Relationship between empathy level, emotional health and prosocial behavior

The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation among empathy, positive emotion and prosocial behavior of college students. A questionnaire survey was conducted in colleges and universities across the country by using convenient sampling method, and a total of 145 subjects were investigated. In this study, empathy scale, positive emotion scale and college students’ prosocial behavior scale were used to investigate the relationship between them and prosocial behavior. At the same time, gender, origin, only child and other factors are also considered, and the following conclusions are obtained: empathy affects prosocial behavior tendency. The higher the level of empathy, the higher the motivation of helping others and altruistic behavior, and the stronger the prosocial behavior tendency. Emotional health level will affect individual prosocial behavior tendency. The results show that the tendency of prosocial behavior is stronger when the positive emotion of individuals is high. And prosocial behavior also has significant gender differences, that is, male college students’ prosocial tendency is lower than female college students; There are also significant differences in students’ places, and the prosocial tendency of students with urban household registration is lower than that of students with rural household registration.