Bangladesh has been termed as the country with “least emotional” people on a global ranking published in a recent report by Gallup, a data-driven news service provider based on US and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research.
An article published by TIME Magazine on Thursday said although Eastern Europe predominantly has the “least emotional” countries, Bangladesh has marked the lowest score of 37% on the Gallup survey which measured experience of emotions across 148 countries in 2014.
The results are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older. In these interviews, Gallup asked people whether they experienced five positive and negative emotions a lot the previous day.
The positive emotions include: feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, learning or doing something interesting, and smiling and laughing a lot. The negative ones include: anger, stress, sadness, physical pain and worry.
The least – and most – emotional country was then measured with the average number of “yes” responses to these questions, where Bangladesh scored the lowest at 37%.
Countries from Latin America scored highest on this index, with Bolivia and El Salvador as “most emotional” country at 59%, and the region leading the index overall.
It is important to note, however, that the questions for measuring positive emotions and negative emotions make the Positive Experience and Negative Experience Indexes, respectively, and the two are not inversely related. This means that in some countries, some people might report certain attributes of the positive emotions as well as of the negative emotions – and that helps to understand reports that some countries experience a lot of emotions overall, while residents in other countries express few – as in Bangladesh, evidently.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
