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teachers of the higher educational institutions, a total problems of the students, limits the range of emotional
number of 97 persons aged from 27 to 62 years, with responsiveness and reduces the ability to empathy’s
the pedagogical work experience from the 1 to 30 manifestation.
years. The following psychodiagnostic techniques were The “penetrating ability in the empathy” as the
applied: questionnaire “Diagnostics of the level of important communicative property of the person,
empathic abilities” (Boyko, 1996), multifunctional φ- allowing to create the atmosphere of openness and trust
criterion of Fisher. that in turn contributes to the empathy’s manifestation.
And vice versa, the atmosphere of tension and
Results suspicion, the absence prevents the functioning of the
The results of diagnostics of the level of empathy of rational channel of the empathy, which is why the
the teachers show that the most feck of the teachers majority of the studied group of the teachers have low
(73%) have the low (16%) and below average (57%) and below average values for this indicator of the
level of manifestation of empathy, which may indicate empathy.
to certain emotional “callousness” of the teachers. Only The necessary condition for empathic personality is the
to 27% of the studied group the empathic abilities are ability to identify, namely the ability to put oneself to
at the sufficient level, which manifests itself in the the place of another person and understand him on the
ability to understand and “feel” the psycho-emotional basis of empathy. However, as the results showed,
state of the students. more than half of the teachers have the low and below-
The analysis of the integral characteristics of the average level of identification, which in turn blocks the
empathy (see Table 1) showed that more than half of intuitive channel of the empathy and obstructs for
the teachers have the low or understated level of empathy’s manifestation on the whole.
attitudes toward the manifestation of empathy. Perhaps At the next stage of the study, we analyzed the
that it is precisely the lack of focus on establishment of dependence of the manifestation of the level of the
the personal contacts, the conviction that it is empathy of the experience of the teacher’s professional
inappropriate to show interest for the experiences and activities. The results are presented in Figure 1.

Table 1. The characteristics of integral indicators of the empathy.

The characteristics of the The frequency of manifestation (%)
empathy high average below the average low
The rational channel of the empathy 3 28 30 39
The emotional channel of the
empathy 11 43 19 27
The intuitive channel of the
empathy 11 34 22 33
Adjustment to the empathy 3 34 27 36
The penetrating ability in the 4 33 31 32
empathy
The identification 5 38 23 34

100
90
80 high
70 63
60 54 48 average
50
40 32 35
30 17 20 below the average
20 14 14
10 0 3 0 low
0
work experience up to work experience from work experience over
10 years 10 to 25 years 25 years

Figure 1. The manifestation of the level of the empathy of the teachers depending of work experience.

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