EMPATHY VIS-À-VIS SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL SELF-CONCEPT: AN INVESTIGATION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

An academic environment encompasses intellectual activities, social life and emotional growth. It demands caring, compassionate and empathetic connections. Students develop their sense of 'self' along with their social, emotional and intellectual identities. Self-concept is a multi-faceted paradigm understood by self-motives and social situations that gets reflected in behaviour. The present study is a descriptive survey that seeks to connect empathy with university students' social, emotional and intellectual self-concept. The test was carried out on a representative stratified sample and quantitative analysis established the results.