Building altruism among adolescent students through the random acts of kindness

Altruism is the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others. The present paper is an attempt to test the result of an altruism exercise on building altruism among adolescent students. Altruism has very significant implications in making collective well being of a society. Despite such significance, altruism has been getting less importance in the psychological studies. Researches, conducted in the field of positive psychology supports that traits like altruism characterizes self-concepts which is high in empathy, high in internal locus of control, less egocentric and socially responsible. Hence, developing certain skills to build altruistic behaviour in a scientific way has become a necessary concern. Therefore, the researchers attempted to test an exercise of building altruism and experimented on a group of adolescent students. It was evident from the present research that altruism can significantly be taught and learnt through Random Acts of Kindness.