The empathic ability of kharkiv national medical university students with the functional asymmetry of a different type

Abstract

The dependence between the individual peculiarities of functional asymmetry and the level of empathy has been established. The analysis of diagnostic findings of the level of empathy in persons with the functional asymmetry a different type showed that all the groups have an average level of empathy. The persons with the left-side type of functional asymmetry (LSTFA) (experimental group) have the highest number of points as for the scales: empathy for parents (12.1); empathy for children (12); empathy for strangers and little-known people (11.1). The persons with the mixed type of functional asymmetry (MTFE) have the lowest number of points for all the scales of empathy. Most persons with the right-side type of functional asymmetry (RSTFА) (the reference group) show a very high level of empathy (9.5%) for the scale of “empathy for parents” (15 points) and only the persons from the experimental group with the MTFE (12.5%) have the lowest level of empathy (0-1 points) for the scales of “empathy for animals” and also empathy for “the strangers and little-known people”.