Interrelation of Subjective Vitality and Empathy Among Different Caring Professionals

Student: Obidina Oksana

Supervisor: Elena B. Stankovskaya

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The theme of this work is "Interrelation of Subjective Vitality and Empathy Among Different Caring Professionals". The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of subjective vitality and empathy in the professionals of helping professions, and to determine how the distance between the specialist and his client is interconnected with these phenomena. The data were obtained using the tested Russian-language version of the subjective vitality methodology developed in the framework of the theory of self-determination by R. Ryan and S. Frederic, and using the adapted multifactorial empathy questionnaire by M. Davis. One of the results of the study shows that with the increase in the indicators of the level of subjective vitality, the indicators of the level of empathy in representatives of helping professions increase.

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