The relationship between non-attachment, compassion, and prosocial behaviour among undergraduate students in Malaysia

Goh, Kai Xuan and Low, Wen Ze and Tan, Terry (2025) The relationship between non-attachment, compassion, and prosocial behaviour among undergraduate students in Malaysia. Final Year Project, UTAR.

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Abstract

The present study’s aim is to explore the correlation between non-attachment, compassion and prosocial behaviour and how these variables influence each other. The current study proposed three hypotheses suggesting that positive relationships exist between non-attachment, compassion and prosocial behaviour among undergraduate students in Malaysia, with the study’s findings indicating a significant and positive relationship between non-attachment and prosocial behaviour, compassion and prosocial behaviour, as well as non-attachment and compassion. This study is a cross-sectional and quantitative research. The aggregate number of participants recruited was 162 via purposive sampling method and their responses were accumulated through the internet questionnaire. All participants were Malaysian, undergraduate students from local universities aged 19–20 and most of them were Chinese. The present study included three instruments which were Non-attachment Scale–Short Form (NAS-SF), Compassion scale (CS), and Prosocialness Scale for Adults (PSA). Additionally, the relationships among these three variables was examined by using Pearson’s Correlation. The present study’s findings suggest that there is an expanded concept of virtue-meditation-wisdom and have addressed the gap, as there have been limited studies conducted to examine these three variables. Besides that, these findings also suggest that it can be embedded in the educational programs, counselling services and national youth development policy. In short, empirical support is provided by the present study on the relationships between non-attachment, compassion and prosocial behaviour.

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