Bangladesh has been termed the country with “least emotional” people on a global ranking recently published by a US-based research and consulting company.
An article published by the Time Magazine yesterday 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.
Gallup is a data-driven firm that provides news service based on US and world polls, daily news tracking and public opinion research.
The results of the survey 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 the previous day.
The positive emotions were feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, learning or doing something interesting, and smiling and laughing a lot. The negative ones were 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.
Questions for measuring positive and negative emotions make the Positive Experience and Negative Experience Indexes respectively, and the two are not inversely related.