Discussion
Hypothesis
“Does being religious, in any religion and any orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic or quest), make you more compassionate?” is the question I hoped to have answered with this study. My original hypothesis was there was a correlation between being more religious and being more compassionate. The results of the research were inconclusive given the fact that no one who took the survey considered themselves of average religiousness (for their religion) or very religious/clergy in their religion. Because of the unipolar results, it was impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions as to whether or not being religious makes one more compassionate. I also looked at whether working in a “helping profession” increased compassion. …show more content…
Kuah-Pearce (2014) showed that religious people are very compassionate, as seen by Buddhist in China. Unfortunately, no Buddhists took the survey, so a comparison could not be made there. Sutton, Jordan and Worthington (2014) looked at compassion in Pentecostals. In this study, “ingroups” were looked at. My research complimented this study in that before taking the Universal Compassion for Humanity test, participants were asked to rate their compassion on a scale of 1 to 7. By thinking abstractly about compassion, my study participants could have been thinking more about ingroups than outgroups. My research is most in line with Baston, Floyd, Meyer and Winner (1999). In this study, Christians were surveyed in relation to an outgroup of homosexuals. My research most compliments this given both were looking specifically at compassion related to an outgroup. Unfortunately, again nothing could be concluded because no one ranked themselves on the upper levels of …show more content…
First, it would benefit because it will look at how religion impacts compassion. It will not do harm because all participants are coded and the information will not be used with malicious intent to harm one religious group over another. The results will have integrity because at no point would the results be used to skew opinions of a religion or lack thereof. It will have justice because the limitations of the information gathered will be noted and will not be used to make blanket statements about different religions. Finally, it will have respect for people's rights and dignity by allowing participants to not have to answer all
Hypothesis
“Does being religious, in any religion and any orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic or quest), make you more compassionate?” is the question I hoped to have answered with this study. My original hypothesis was there was a correlation between being more religious and being more compassionate. The results of the research were inconclusive given the fact that no one who took the survey considered themselves of average religiousness (for their religion) or very religious/clergy in their religion. Because of the unipolar results, it was impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions as to whether or not being religious makes one more compassionate. I also looked at whether working in a “helping profession” increased compassion. …show more content…
Kuah-Pearce (2014) showed that religious people are very compassionate, as seen by Buddhist in China. Unfortunately, no Buddhists took the survey, so a comparison could not be made there. Sutton, Jordan and Worthington (2014) looked at compassion in Pentecostals. In this study, “ingroups” were looked at. My research complimented this study in that before taking the Universal Compassion for Humanity test, participants were asked to rate their compassion on a scale of 1 to 7. By thinking abstractly about compassion, my study participants could have been thinking more about ingroups than outgroups. My research is most in line with Baston, Floyd, Meyer and Winner (1999). In this study, Christians were surveyed in relation to an outgroup of homosexuals. My research most compliments this given both were looking specifically at compassion related to an outgroup. Unfortunately, again nothing could be concluded because no one ranked themselves on the upper levels of …show more content…
First, it would benefit because it will look at how religion impacts compassion. It will not do harm because all participants are coded and the information will not be used with malicious intent to harm one religious group over another. The results will have integrity because at no point would the results be used to skew opinions of a religion or lack thereof. It will have justice because the limitations of the information gathered will be noted and will not be used to make blanket statements about different religions. Finally, it will have respect for people's rights and dignity by allowing participants to not have to answer all