EMPATHY IN THE CONTEXT OF MORAL FEELINGS
Journal Title: Psychological journal - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 5
Abstract
Article deals with the theoretical analysis of understanding of the phenomena of empathy, guilt and shame in psychology, the relationship between them and the empirical study of their manifestation in the students of “helping” professions; which became the goal of this work. It is stated that empathy as a condolences for the person suffering, compassion to her on the basis of understanding of her internal state of another person and the intuitive sensation of the situation in which this human appeared, the feeling of guilt as dissatisfaction with himself through the misbehavior before another person, inconsistency of one’s own behavior and moral norms of society, and shame (as awareness of one’s own imperfection in certain situation, inability to accomplish the task, accompanied by negative experiences through the condemnation of the deed by other people) are the complex psychological phenomena related to morality and conscientiousness of human, his ability to take responsibility for his bad deeds. It is shown that modern psychology distinguishes several types of empathy: emotional, cognitive (rational), intuitive, behavioral and predicative. However, understanding empathy as a complex and integrated in fact manifestations of the phenomenon, we consider it is not so much separate types of empathy, how many different components of the whole process of empathy. The various components of the empathy, which in general form the phenomenon of empathy, may be dominant in the empathy process, depending on the situation and on the personality. It is noted that concerning to the difference between the emotions of shame and guilt, we support the opinion that the presence of a third person is a required condition for experience of shame, while the experience of guilt can “overtake” a person both alone and in the absence of an actual source of punishment. Methods of the measurement of level of empathic abilities (V. V. Boyko) and “Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA)” J. P. Tangney were used in the research. It was revealed that future psychologists are statistically significantly stronger experiencing feeling of guilt, are more empathic in general and more easily identifying themselves with people who sympathize with than future physicians. It was concluded that development of empathy of future physicians more often incline them to experience the feeling of shame, whereas psychologists with developed empathy are equally experiencing both moral feelings: guilt and shame – which promotes the development of their conscientiousness and responsibility for their deeds.
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Halyna Chuyko
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