Aakib Rahman Parray and Shah Mohd. Khan
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
This piece of research addresses the occurrences of social emotions and their appraisal
among a group of students. Using the component process model as a foundation, the
present study focuses on shame’s determinants and aims to investigate the differences
in bodily symptoms, expressive reactions, verbal reactions, and psychological
consequences in the level of appraisal. The sample comprised of 118 university students
selected based on characteristics representing five universal faculties (Arts, Social
Science, Commerce, Law, and Science) of two universities. Subjects were asked to recall
an event related to their social or self-conscious emotions from their autobiographical
memories and rate potential responses/ reactions to psychological consequences,
bodily sensations, and action tendencies that they experienced. The findings support
the idea that there are differences in the level of appraisal and occurrence of shame
in them. As the levels of appraisal changes from low to high, the experience about
shame determines (bodily symptoms, expressive reactions, verbal reactions, and
psychological consequences) changes, and people experienced more symptoms and
reactions according to their interpretation about the event or episode. Therefore, the
appraisal about shame potentially affects student’s emotional and social development.
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