REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION
ISSN: 2146-0353 ● © RIGEO ● 11(9), SPRING, 2021
www.rigeo.org Research Article
Digital Empathy of Post Graduate Students
of Kerala: A Descriptive Research
Joshith, V. P.
1
Assistant Professor, Department of Education,
Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India
getjoshith@gmail.com
Thiyagu, K.
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Education,
Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India
thiyagusuri@gmail.com
Abstract
The major aim of the study to find out the level digital empathy among the post graduate students of
Kasaragod District. The investigator adopted normative survey to collect the data. In this study, all the
post graduate students those who are studying for post-graduation after completing their bachelor’s
degree in the Arts and Science Colleges located in Kasaragod District of Kerala has been taken as
population of the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample and 460 post
graduate students were selected as the sample from Kasaragod district. The investigator has used a self-
prepared tool entitled as “Digital Empathy Scale (2019)” for this study because it covers most of the
dimensions of digital empathy such as cognitive, emotional, affective, and moral aspect of empathy of
the post graduate students and it will be very easy to get opinion for each statement. The findings of the
study were: 38 (8.3%) of the sample has low level, 308 (67%) of sample have moderate level and 114
(24.8%) of sample has a high level of digital empathy. There is no significant difference in the mean scores
of digital empathy among the PG Students with respect to their gender and institution background. There
is a significant difference in the mean scores of digital empathies among the PG Students with respect to
their subject streams. The multiple comparisons of digital empathy scores of the PG Students belong to
the different subject streams, when compared with the group of Arts and Science subject stream
respondents differ significantly at 0.01 level on digital empathy. Similarly, Arts stream respondents and
language stream respondents are differed significantly at 0.01 level on Digital Empathy. Each subject
stream is significantly different from each other. The Arts students are having more mean scores of Digital
Empathy comparing to language and science subject streams students.
Keywords
Digital Empathy, PG Students, Descriptive Research
To cite this article: Joshith, V. P.and Thiyagu, K. (2021). Digital Empathy of Post Graduate Students of Kerala: A
Descriptive Research. Review of International Geographical Education (RIGEO), 11(9), 2616-2628. Doi:
10.48047/rigeo.11.09.228
Submitted: 02-11-2020 ● Revised: 05-02-2021 ● Accepted: 15-03-2021