DEVELOPMENT OF THE HINDI VERSION OF A SELF-REPORT ALTRUISM SCALE

The present study sought to develop the Hindi version of the Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA-scale) devised by Rushton, Chrisjohn and Fekken (1981; Personality and Individual Differences, 2 292-302). Statements of the original SRA-scale, apart from being adapted to Indian culture, were presented in general response format wherein the subjects could ''imagine'' themselves in different situations and report the amount of help they could render. The Hindi SRA-scale bore high equivalence to the original scale and was found to have high internal consistency, split-half and test-retest reliability, criterion-related and construct validity. The wee promises to be a useful tool for measuring altruism in the Indian milieu.