Does Personality, Gratitude and Passionate Love makes Youth Compassionate ?

By : R. S. Mhaske, Shilpa Salve, Bhupender Singh

Page No: 245-254

Abstract
The objective of the present study is to identify the factors useful in the discrimination of high and low compassionate love scorers with the help of personality factors, gratitude and passionate love among youth. The data was collected on 105 students using the Big-five Inventory (BFI), Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6 ), Passionate Love Scale (PLS), and Compassionate love scale (CLS). A stepwise discriminate functional analysis (DFA) was performed using three psychological variables as predictors of membership in three level of criterion variable. The findings showed the overall cross-validation cases, classification was found to be 52.4% . Overall, about 57.1% cases of low compassionate group, and 65.7 % of cases of high compassionate group were successfully discriminated by openness to experience and passionate love. Further the limitation of the present study are stated and suggestion for future suggestion are mentioned.

Authors :
Bhupender Singh : Teaching Associate – Department of Psychology, S. P. Pune University, Pune – 411007.
Shilpa Salve : Teaching Associate – Department of Psychology, S. P. Pune University, Pune – 411007.
R. S. Mhaske : Associate Professor – Department of Psychology, S. P. Pune University, Pune - 411007.