العلاقة بين التدين في التعاون والتعاطف (دراسة احصائية علي عينة من الاتراك)

The present article aims to determine the role of religiousness on empathy and helping behaviors. The distributive analytical method was used in this study. The sample of this study consisted of 461 male and 450 female from different regions of Turkey. In this research, “Religiousness Scale” and “Scale of Empathic Orientation” and “Helping Orientation Questionnaire” was used. The findings of this study indicated that there is an important relationship between religiousness-helping Orientation and religiousness-empathic orientation. According to the multiple regression analysis’ results, “religious effect and faith” factor have a considerable effect on empathic and helping orientations. Namely, when level of religiousness increases, the level of empathic and helping orientations increases as well. Key Words: Religiosity, Empathic Orientation, Helping Orientation, religiousness Scale, Altruism, Pro-social Behavior