Going deeper into compassion through Schwartz’s value theory

IF 2.3 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI:10.1080/0309877X.2023.2185771

Sandra Miralles-Armenteros, Jacob Guinot

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The role of compassion has attracted increasing interest in the higher educational context due to its recognised benefits. As values influence the cognitive, emotional and behavioural domains, certain values are expected to be closely related to the capacity to experience compassion. This paper empirically examines the relationship between personal values and compassion by focusing on two dimensions or categories of Schwartz’s theory values: self-enhancement and self-transcendence. To this end, we carried out a quantitative analysis of a sample of 252 university students in the last year of their business degree in two public universities, one located in Spain and the other in Finland. Our hypotheses posit the positive relationship of compassion with self-transcendence and the negative relationship of compassion with self-enhancement. Results from regression analysis reveal that, across these two distinct cultural samples, the more people endorse values related to self-transcendence, the more compassionate they are, and the more people endorse values related to self-enhancement, the less compassionate they are. Findings also show no significant difference between the two countries in terms of the relationship between personal values and compassion. Implications of the findings, limitations and future research are examined.

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通过施瓦茨的价值理论更深入地了解同情心

摘要同情心的作用因其公认的好处而在高等教育中引起了越来越多的兴趣。由于价值观影响认知、情感和行为领域，某些价值观预计与体验同情心的能力密切相关。本文通过考察施瓦茨理论价值观的两个维度或范畴：自我提升和自我超越，实证地考察了个人价值观与同情心之间的关系。为此，我们对两所公立大学的252名大学生进行了定量分析，一所位于西班牙，另一所位于芬兰。我们的假设假定了同情心与自我超越的积极关系，以及同情心与自我提升的消极关系。回归分析的结果表明，在这两个不同的文化样本中，越是认可与自我超越相关的价值观的人，他们就越富有同情心，越是认同与自我提升相关的价值观念的人，就越不富有同情心。调查结果还显示，在个人价值观和同情心之间的关系方面，两国之间没有显著差异。对研究结果的含义、局限性和未来的研究进行了审查。

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JOURNAL OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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5.20

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Journal of Further and Higher Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly work that represents the whole field of post-16 education and training. The journal engages with a diverse range of topics within the field including management and administration, teacher education and training, curriculum, staff and institutional development, and teaching and learning strategies and processes. Through encouraging engagement with and around policy, contemporary pedagogic issues and professional concerns within different educational systems around the globe, Journal of Further and Higher Education is committed to promoting excellence by providing a forum for scholarly debate and evaluation. Articles that are accepted for publication probe and offer original insights in an accessible, succinct style, and debate and critique practice, research, theory. They offer informed perspectives on contextual and professional matters and critically examine the relationship between theory and practice across the spectrum of further and higher education.