Team Members : Vamsi Krishna, Bilahari, Chandra Kiran
Nowadays, we are seeing a lot of videos and posts in social media concerning social responsibilities, people's attitude towards the society and also videos which are focused on educating people on how they should contribute to the community. So we wanted to know how compassionate people are towards other people.
Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering.
The concept of compassionate love has often been demonstrated using various questionnaires, where a person is presented with different scenarios of people going through distress and this person's feelings and thoughts that comprise the desire to help are activated.
So in our study, we presented students with a questionnaire which consisted of various questions which focused on activating the feelings of compassion and each question had a wide spectrum of choices so that we could precisely capture the extent of compassion experienced by the individual. Around 50 odd students have sent their responses. Based on their responses we have deduced some interesting conclusions.
In scenarios where the individuals weren't needed to act to the situation and were just needed to specify how they would feel towards others hardships, people were more certain about their feelings and overall the amount of positive feelings were significantly higher compared to situations in which where they were needed to undertake some action to help others.
Also in cases where the individuals were required to sacrifice or take extreme action, majority of the individuals softened their stance towards more uncertainty and also the percentage of people who felt "less compassion" increased comparatively, but even in these cases the number of people who experienced compassion remained higher than those who didn't.
Therefore, from our study we found out that majority of people experience some level of compassion, but the number of people acting in the direction of these feelings varies based on the situation and the extremity of action required.
Our study group was very monotonous as all the subjects were of the same age and educational background. We believe, we could have got deeper insights if we had the responses from a diverse set of individuals.
Nowadays, we are seeing a lot of videos and posts in social media concerning social responsibilities, people's attitude towards the society and also videos which are focused on educating people on how they should contribute to the community. So we wanted to know how compassionate people are towards other people.
Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering.
The concept of compassionate love has often been demonstrated using various questionnaires, where a person is presented with different scenarios of people going through distress and this person's feelings and thoughts that comprise the desire to help are activated.
So in our study, we presented students with a questionnaire which consisted of various questions which focused on activating the feelings of compassion and each question had a wide spectrum of choices so that we could precisely capture the extent of compassion experienced by the individual. Around 50 odd students have sent their responses. Based on their responses we have deduced some interesting conclusions.
In scenarios where the individuals weren't needed to act to the situation and were just needed to specify how they would feel towards others hardships, people were more certain about their feelings and overall the amount of positive feelings were significantly higher compared to situations in which where they were needed to undertake some action to help others.
Also in cases where the individuals were required to sacrifice or take extreme action, majority of the individuals softened their stance towards more uncertainty and also the percentage of people who felt "less compassion" increased comparatively, but even in these cases the number of people who experienced compassion remained higher than those who didn't.
Therefore, from our study we found out that majority of people experience some level of compassion, but the number of people acting in the direction of these feelings varies based on the situation and the extremity of action required.
Our study group was very monotonous as all the subjects were of the same age and educational background. We believe, we could have got deeper insights if we had the responses from a diverse set of individuals.
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