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BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR, vol.1, no.1, pp.1-13, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
AbstractAims:This study aimed to examine differences in xenophobia, prosocial behaviortendency,andsociodemographiccharacteristicsamongnursingstudents.Materials&Methods:Theparticipantswere227nursingstudents(29.1%male,70.9%female)attendingthenursingdepartmentinthespringsemesterofthe2019–2020academicyear.Weusedapersonalidentificationform,xenophobiascale,andprosocialbehaviortendencyscaletocollectthedata.Results:Amongtheparticipants,24.7%wereinfirstyear,30.4%wereinsecondyear,21.6%wereinthirdyear,and23.3%wereinfourthyear.Femalestudentshadhigherprosocialbehaviordisposition,altruistic,andsubmissivescoresthantheirmalecoun-terparts.Thesecond-yearstudents’prosocialbehaviorscoreswerehigherthanthoseof the third-year students. The male students’ hatred, humiliation, and xenophobiascoreswerehigherthanthoseofthefemalestudents.Discussion:Thexenophobiascoreswerehigherinthosewithtwolivingparentsandlowerinthosewhosemothershadsecondaryeducation.WeusedtheKolmogorov–Smirnovtest,Shapiro–Wilktest,andgraphicalassessmentstotestthequantitativedata’s compliance with normal distribution. We also employed the Student’st-test and one-way analysis of variance for data showing a normal distribution andMann–WhitneyUand Kruskal–Wallis tests for data showing non-normal distribu-tion.Toevaluatetherelationshipsamongvariables,weusedthePearsoncorrelationanalysis for normally distributed variables and Spearman’s correlation analysis fornon-normallydistributedvariables.Conclusion:Women’sprosocialbehaviortendencytotalscorewashigherthanmen’s,andmen’sxenophobiatotalscorewashigherthanwomen’s.Therewasaweaknegativecorrelationbetweenthepositivebehaviortendencyandxenophobiatotalscores