Kindness is often associated with benevolence, empathy, courtesy, friendliness, generosity, and, as defined in this research, altruism. That is, the act of putting others before oneself, without expectation of reward. This kind behavior is often one of the characteristics Catholic schools aim to instill on their students through upholding the religious values of prayer and faith. The researcher aims to investigate if these Catholic school students were motivated to do kind acts through the religious values taught in their school, and if they are still often doing altruistic behavior post-graduation. Catholic schools often pride themselves in the values they strictly uphold and the mission and visions they aim for. However these missions and …show more content…
Strassmair (2009) also showed that the people who benefit fully from the perceived kindness or the costly action of others does not spoil the benefit for them or induce any negative emotion such as guilt. This kindness received from others is also given great significance by the receiver of the kind act (Macdonald, Liben, Carnevale, Rennick, Wolf, Meloche, & Cohen, 2005).
Self-kindness and self-compassion also results in an increase in well-being (Neely, Schallert, Mohammed, Roberts, & Chen, 2009). A study by Hoffman, Grossman, & Hinton (2011) supports this by proving that loving-kindness and compassion meditation not only results in increased positive affect, but also results in a decrease in negative affect.
Kindness in Social Attitude and
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Religion was also found to have a positive effect on kindness and empathy (Colzato, Zech, Hommel, Verdonschot, van den Wildenberg, & Hsieh, 2012).
Kindness Programs and Models
Zeece (2009), and Arbour, Signal, & Taylor (2009) presented a programs that aims to increase kindness through literature as a method of promoting prosocial behaviors and compassion. Andersen, Saribay, and Thorpe (2008) reviewed on relationships and developed the integrative model that points to the importance of conveying interpersonal warmth and kindness for directing toward similar goals within groups of different backgrounds. This concept was tested in the real world which found that families with early intervention services had significant positive relationship (Robilliard, 2005).
Jones, Lu, Lucas-Wright, Dillon-Brown, Broussard, Wright, & Ferré (2010) presented the 100 Acts of Kindness program which seeks to increase reproductive social capital for pregnant women in certain communities in Los Angeles, and was designed using community participatory methods.
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, Sean Tuohy, and Sally Jenkins. In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010.
Kindness can really make a difference in a person's attitude. In “A Christmas Carol”, the Cratchits and Scrooge's nephew Fred show kindness to Scrooge, even though Scrooge showed quite the opposite to them. Or in “Thank you M’am”, when Ms. Jones makes Roger food and gives him money to buy his shoes, instead of reporting him to the police. Even in “Little Things Are Big”, when Jesus decides to help people even if he has to face prejudism. These stories all show turning points, and these examples show
Judith Lichtenberg successfully conveys her moral theory with many questions regarding her topics of abstractness, the sense of futility and ineffectiveness, overestimating our generosity, distance, the relativity of well-being, the power of shame, and the drops in the bucket. Using these practical and philosophical ideas she explains why we as a people should search to discover the obstacles that are preventing us from giving more, rather than the finding our charitable obligations and the amounts we should be giving. She leads us to the ideal of motivation and tells us to pay less attention to obligation, because without X being moved to do an act, does it really matter what the act was if X never induces the action?
In the article “Self-Compassion, Stress and Coping” I found that self-compassion can have many positive outcomes when dealing with a negative situation or event. The article looks at the ways in which people who have high levels of self-compassion versus people who have low levels of self-compassion cope with stress, in doing this the researchers show the positive effect of self-compassion. As Denise mentioned compassion and mindfulness as a coping strategy come from the teachings of Buddhism.
People perpetrate seemingly selfless acts almost daily. You see it all over the news; the man who saved that woman from a burning building, the mother who sacrificed herself to protect her children from the bomb blast. But how benevolent are these actions? Are these so-called “heroes” really sacrificing themselves to help others? Until recently, it was the common belief that altruism, or selfless and unconditional kindness, was limited primarily to the human race. However, within the last century, the works of several scientists, most prominently George Price, have provided substantial evidence concluding that altruism is nothing more than a survival technique, one that can be calculated with a simple equation.
Sexual abuse is a growing concern in society today. So many people are hurt by the actions of other people when they abuse them, especially in a sexual manner. The Catholic Church is also now being targeted for sexual offenders. Priests have been charged with sexually abusing young boys that are involved with the church. The church has been looking the other way on this issue for many years. The children as well as their family are being hurt and its time something was done to prevent the further exploitation of young boys in the Catholic Church.
However, putting that aside, there is a burning question that many people want to know about this broad characteristic: “What makes us want to give, and what is so good about giving?” Well, that’s two questions, but those two questions are very similar and so must both be assessed to thoroughly give an answer. Yes, everyone must be thinking, if someone gives something of his, doesn’t it just take away something from him, doing nothing but harming him? Well, believe it or not, there is a tremendous amount of equally tremendous benefits that come from being generous to all people alike. And when these benefits are presented, the first part of the question will be already, for the most part, answered.
Prosociality can be defined as a wide umbrella of behaviors and attitudes that are generally positive towards other people. Prosociality fits into the “Big Five” set of traits under agreeableness. This is still a broad term, but it is broken up into two major categories, which are politeness and compassion. Politeness is more like the tendency to respect people, conform to social norms, and ignore aggressive impulses. However, generosity tends to fit under compassion better. Compassion is the tendency to have concern for others and the urge to help them. A series of games were created in order to point out the differences in generosity and reciprocity. A major outcome that was found in this study is that humans care for the needs of others and have the want to help them. A study was created to find new social preferences, find differences in these preferences, and address limitations. The results show that social preferences for someone who is tolerant and forgiving, therefore portraying
The virtue of kindness is not meek it is not niceness. Kindness holds firm to its foundation and values, but it does it in a way that is gentle. Kindness is not naïve, it is wise and discerning (Corey, 211). People confuse being nice as kindness because on the outside both are soft. The inside is what shows the difference. Niceness has no substance, it will go wherever society takes it. Kindness is different, it has a firm, solid center (Corey xv). The components of soft edges and firm centers make kindness warm and inviting and yet it remains deeply rooted to its core beliefs.
Apart from the role compassion plays in the advancement of the path to Enlightenment, compassion meditation practices have been found to impact physiological pathways which are modulated by stress and are also relevant to disease development and progression. Examples of these types of compassion practices include loving-kindness (metta)...
Dach-Gruschow, Karl Otto. Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men: Altruism of Long Term Volunteers Diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamaign, 2011. Print.
Introduction This essay will discuss the purpose of Catholic schools and identify the challenges leaders of Catholic schools face in achieving this purpose. Firstly a short exploration of the development of Catholic schools in Australia will provide a brief outline of the changing context that exists with regards to the establishment and the continuation of Catholic schooling. Secondly, key documents will be evaluated in order to establish the purpose of Catholic schools. Finally, based on the discussed purpose of Catholic schools, the challenges faced by leadership in achieving this purpose will be discussed. In comparison to the period when Catholic schooling was established in Australia, the present world is a very different place.
...esult, the more directly one sees their personal efforts impact someone else, the more happiness one can gain from the experience of giving. Sometimes generosity requires pushing past a feeling of reluctance because people all instinctively want to keep good things for themselves, but once one is over this feeling, they will feel satisfaction in knowing that they have made a difference in someone else’s life. However, if one lives without generosity but is not selfish, they can still have pleasure from other virtues.
Kindness is the key to most everything. Being kind means taking the high road, even when someone has wronged you. It means serving other people, even under inconvenient circumstances.It involves looking for the good in others, and even helping them to see the good in themselves. Kindness is spreading happiness to make other’s day better and by making them smile. Kindness is defending those who are picked on by others, sitting by those who are lonely, and saying hi to someone in the hall. Kindness is being someone who wants to build up those around them.
Kindness between non-equals often creates a dynamic where the greater of the two, the giver, is perceived to be superior and more self-sufficient. This in turn makes the lesser of the two, the taker, feel inferior and less adequate. If the unequal relationship continues, the giver could become resentful of the taker’s dependency, while the taker becomes resentful of his reliance on the giver’s generosity. What had once been an act of kindness received with appreciation is now an exchange of antipathy and reluctance. Rather than creating an atmosphere of mutual benefits, an atmosphere of aversion prevails.