Affiliation:
1. Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
2. HSE University
3. Moscow State University of Psychology & Education
Abstract
<p><strong>Relevance</strong>. Intrapersonal emotional competence - the ability to recognize, understand and regulate one's own emotional states - is traditionally considered as a factor in both the ontogenetic development of empathy and its situational manifestation. However, there is a question of different levels and nature of the sources of emotional competence and empathy deficits and, accordingly, different ways to compensate for them, which is of particular importance for the practice of developing empathy, including the professional context of psychological counseling and psychotherapy. <strong>Goal.</strong> The purpose of this study was to analyze the diversity of connections between empathy, alexithymia as an indicator of the deficit of emotional competence in relation to one's own feelings and psychological mindedness as an indicator of intentionality in relation to feelings and experiences. <strong>Materials and methods.</strong> On a combined sample of 1,123 people, including representatives of three cultures - Russia, Belarus, Armenia - data from the IRI questionnaire (empathy), TAS–20 (alexithymia) and «The psychological mindedness scale» were collected and analyzed. <strong>Results.</strong> The absence of significant negative connections of empathy with difficulties of awareness and identification of feelings, a stable significant positive connection with them of empathic personal distress, as well as externally oriented thinking with low empathy were found. 5 clusters have been identified, reflecting different variants of the connection between emotional competence and empathy. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> The conclusion is made about the relative independence of the influence of intentionality and competence/lack of emotional competence on empathy, as well as the need for further analysis of intentionality in the field of experiences and emotions.</p>
Publisher
Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
Subject
Clinical Psychology,Health (social science),Developmental and Educational Psychology
Reference34 articles.
1. Andreeva I.N. Modeli emocional'nogo intellekta i emocional'noj kompetentnosti [Models of Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Competence]. VesnÑk Grodzenskaga dzyarzhaÑnaga ÑnÑversÑteta Ñmya YAnkÑ Kupaly. Seryya 3. FÑlalogÑya. PedagogÑka. PsÑhalogÑya [Bulletin of Grodno State University named after Yanki Kupala. Series 3. Philology. Pedagogy. Psychology], 2018. Vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 163¾172. (In Russ., abstr. In Engl.).
2. Budagovskaya N.A., Dubrovskaya S.V., Karyagina T.D. Adaptaciya mnogofaktornogo oprosnika empatii M. Devisavv [Adaptation of the M. Davis multifactorial empathy questionnaire]. Konsul'tativnaya psihologiya i psihoterapiya [Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy], 2013. Vol.21, no.1, pp. 202¾227. (In Russ., abstr. In Engl.).
3. Vasilyuk F. E. Soperezhivaniya kak central'naya kategoriya ponimayushchej psihoterapii [Empathy as a central category of understanding psychotherapy]. Konsul'tativnaya psihologiya i psihoterapiya [Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy], 2016. Vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 205¾207. DOI:10.17759/cpp.2016240511. (In Russ., abstr. In Engl.).
4. Karyagina T.D. Professionalizaciya empatii: postanovka problem [Professionalization of empathy: problem statement]. Konsul'tativnaya psihologiya i psihoterapiya [Counseling psychology and psychotherapy], 2015. Vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 235¾256. DOI: 10.17759/cpp.2015230511 (In Russ., abstr. In Engl.).
5. Karyagina T.D., Kuhtova N.V., Olifirovich N.I., SHermazanyan L.G. Professionalizaciya empatii i prediktory vygoraniya pomogayushchih specialistov [Professionalization of empathy and predictors of burnout of helping professionals]. Konsul'tativnaya psihologiya i psihoterapiya [Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy], 2017. Vol. 25, no. 2., pp. 39¾58. DOI:10.17759/cpp.2017250203. (In Russ., abstr. In Engl.).