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Nihat Kotluk; Roland Tormey – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compassion into engineering ethics cases influenced the intensity of compassion associated with the…
Descriptors: Altruism, Ethics, Engineering Education, Comparative Analysis
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Brandy Piña-Watson; Gisel Suarez Bonilla; Gabriela Manzo; Iliana M. Gonzalez – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The present study examines self-compassion (SC) as a potential protective factor in the relationship between value-behavior discrepancy guilt (VBDG) and the mental health outcomes of anxiety and suicide risk in a sample of Mexican-descent college students. Method: Participants consisted of 810 college students of Mexican descent.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Mexican Americans, Values, Behavior
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Hudaynazarova, Ayrahat; Avsaroglu, Selahattin – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between positive and negative childhood experiences, forgiveness and social exclusion experiences of individuals in adolescence. The research was carried out using the relational survey technique, one of the quantitative research methods. The participants of the study consisted of middle school…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Children, Adolescents, Middle School Students
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Galvin, John; Richards, Gareth – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This study followed a pre-registered analysis plan with the aim to investigate whether autistic traits and self-compassion are correlated in autistic adults, and to test an indirect effect of autistic traits on anxiety/depression via self-compassion. We present the findings of an online survey of 456 participants (n = 228 autistic adults, n = 228…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Altruism, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Adults
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Toktas, Sermet – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
The aim of this study is to evaluate the forgiveness and psychological resilience of the pre-service teachers in the department of physical education and sports in sports education and psychology according to different variables. The study group consisted of 479 university students studying in Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, Burdur, Denizli and Mersin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Altruism
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Ghobari Bonab, Bagher; Khodayarifard, Mohamad; Geshnigani, Ramin Hashemi; Khoei, Behnaz; Nosrati, Fatimah; Song, Mary Jacqueline; Enright, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
This research investigated the effectiveness of a forgiveness education program on reducing anger and ethnic prejudice and improving forgiveness in Iranian adolescents. There were 224 (Persian, Azeri, and Kurdish) male and female students in 8th grade who were selected from 3 provinces: Tehran, Eastern Azerbaijan, and Kurdestan. Schools were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Altruism, Interpersonal Relationship, Program Effectiveness
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Bayin, Ümit; Kaya, Mehmet – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
In this research, the aim is to investigate the relationship between forgiveness and perceived social support in teenagers in terms of various variables (gender, high school type, education level of parents, expressed relative communication and expressed family, friends, teacher support). The population of the research consists of high school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Gender Differences, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
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Dogar, Yahya; Duz, Serkan – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine the compassion levels of Faculty of Sports Sciences students who study at Inonu University. The sample of the study consisted of 508 students, 191 women and 317 men who voluntarily participated in the study. Compassion Scale (CS) consisting of 24 items and five-point Likert type with six subscales developed by…
Descriptors: Altruism, Team Sports, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
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Celik, Aysegul – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
In this study, a mixed method was used. The sample consisted of 175 female and 155 male fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade students studying in a public secondary school in the Central Anatolia Region in Turkey. The sample was used in accordance with a cluster sampling method, a type of probability sampling. In the quantitative dimension of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Adwere-Boamah, Joseph; Hufstedler, Shirley – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
This study used binary logistic regression to predict social trust with five demographic variables from a national sample of adult individuals who participated in The General Social Survey (GSS) in 2012. The five predictor variables were respondents' highest degree earned, race, sex, general happiness and the importance of personally assisting…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Regression (Statistics), Predictor Variables, Demography
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Mehr, Kristin E.; Adams, Aimee C. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships among maladaptive perfectionism, self-compassion, and depressive symptoms in college students. It was hypothesized that self-compassion would mediate the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms, with maladaptive perfectionism related to lower levels of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Depression (Psychology), College Students, Correlation
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Ong, Qiyan; Ho, Kong Weng; Ho, Kong Chong – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Studies on intra-household allocation of resources show that exogenous increase in mothers' income has larger effect on children's outcomes than the same increase in fathers' income, suggesting gender differences may exist in parents' altruism towards their children. Using self-reported life happiness and life satisfaction, we investigate the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Resource Allocation, Older Adults, Altruism
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Onur, Arzu; Sahin, Elvan; Tekkaya, Ceren – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Environmental attitudes depend on the relative importance that individuals attach to themselves, other people, or all living things. These distinct bases have been found to predict environmental concern, and may act as statistically significant determinants of pro-environmental behaviours. We claim that examining the complex nature of value…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
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Mercadillo, Roberto E.; Diaz, Jose Luis; Pasaye, Erick H.; Barrios, Fernando A. – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Compassion is considered a moral emotion related to the perception of suffering in others, and resulting in a motivation to alleviate the afflicted party. We compared brain correlates of compassion-evoking images in women and men. BOLD functional images of 24 healthy volunteers (twelve women and twelve men; age=27 [plus or minus] 2.5 y.o.) were…
Descriptors: Altruism, Empathy, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Correlation
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Sherblom, Stephen A. – Journal of Moral Education, 2009
The "care challenge" is shown to be both broader and more successful than Walker and Frimer's (this issue, pp. 53-68) critique allows. The main philosophical and psychological tenets of the care challenge foreshadowed the direction of twenty-first century moral psychology.
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Altruism, Empathy
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