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International Journal of Science Annals

SOCIAL SCIENCES. Psychology

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Еmpathy in the Structure of Psychological Competence
of the Teacher of the Higher Educational Institution

Author’s Contribution: Mitina S. V. 1 АВСDEFG
A – Study design;
B – Data collection; 1 V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Ukraine
C – Statistical analysis;
D – Data interpretation;
E – Manuscript preparation;
F – Literature search;
G – Funds collection Received: 08.10.2018; Accepted: 01.11.2018; Published: 30.11.2018
Abstract
Background and The efficiency of pedagogical activity depends not only of the level of professional
Aim of Study: knowledge and abilities of the teacher but also of the presence for him of the personality
qualities necessary for optimal cooperation. One of such professionally-meaningful
qualities of the teacher is the empathy able to do the process of education emotionally
comfortable and productive.
The aim of the study: to explore of level of empathy’s display of the teachers depending
on experience of their pedagogical activity.

Material and Methods: Theoretical (analysis and synthesis of the psychological literature); empirical (pilot
study). 97 teachers of the higher educational institutions participated in the study; at the
age of 27 to 62 years, with the work experience from 1 year to 30 years.

Results: The results obtained indicate that the empathy is the important component in the
structure of the professional competence of the teacher of the higher educational
institution, and also that the empathic ability of the teacher is transformed with the
development of life and professional experience. The empirical research shows the
lowest rates of empathy among the teachers with the work experience of more than 25
years and among the young teachers with the work experience up to 10 years.

Conclusions: It is concluded that there is the dependence of the empathy of professional experience,
necessary to develop the empathy both at the stage of the training of the future teachers
in the higher educational institutions and in the process of continuous professional
education.

Keywords: competence, psychological competence, teacher, pedagogical activity, empathy.

Copyright: © 2018 Mitina S. V. Published by Archives of International Journal of Science Annals

DOI and UDC DOI 10.26697/ijsa.2018.1-2.04; UDC 159.942:378.124.08

Conflict of interests: The author declares that there is no conflict of interests

Peer review: Double-blind review

Source of support: Departmental sources

Information about Mitina Svitlana Vladimirovna (Corresponding Author) – http://orcid.org/0000-0001-
the author: 9520-0272; [email protected]; Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology,
Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy;
V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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