Open AccessThe Specifics of the Components of Empathy of Volunteers Providing Social Assistance to the Population in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
O.B. Polyakova,
Open Humanitarian
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
contemporary problems of social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-5466
pISSN - 2412-527X
DOI - 10.17922/2412-5466-2021-7-1-115-122
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , emotionality , context (archaeology) , social psychology , biology , paleontology
the specificity of the components of empathy of volunteers providing social assistance to the population in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic was determined; the average degree of expression of the components of empathy, empathic empathy and empathy of an effective orientation; lower average severity of identification, general and penetrating empathy, intuitiveness, rationality and emotionality of empathy, empathic attitudes. Found: a marked connection between: effective and empathic empathy; identification and general empathy; intuitiveness of empathy and general empathy; general and penetrating empathy, and empathic attitudes; empathic empathy and empathy; moderate connection between: effective empathy and empathy; identification and empathic empathy, and empathic attitudes, and the intuitiveness of empathy, and the rationality of empathy; general empathy and rationality of empathy, and the emotionality of empathy, and empathy, and empathic empathy; penetrating empathy and emotionality of empathy, and empathy, and empathic attitudes; the rationality of empathy and empathic empathy; empathic empathy and emotionality of empathy; emotionality of empathy and empathy; weak link between: effective empathy and the emotionality of empathy; penetrating and empathic empathy; empathic and empathic attitudes. It has been proven that the higher the effective, identification, intuitive and empathic empathy, the higher the general and penetrating empathy, as well as empathic attitudes.