Original scientific paper

Emotional empathy of primary school eighth graders

Hicela Ivon ; Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Split
Emira Glavina Kozić ; Primary School ‘’Knez Mislav’’, Kastel Sucurac

Abstract

The work is focused on the examination of emotional empathy and imagination (a specifi c aspect of empathy) of primary school eighth graders; on analysing the relations between emotional empathy and imagination on the one hand to school success, respondents’ gender and the size of a place where pupils live, i.e. where they go to school, on the other. Three hundred and two primary school pupils from Split, Solin, Kastela, Trogir and Omis were included in the examination. The pupils’ empathy and imagination were expressed through their self-evaluation in the E-questionnaire with emotional empathy and imagination scales by the author Raboteg-Saric (1991, 1993). The results have shown that there is a signifi cant connection between pupils’ gender and the degrees of empathy and imagination, as well as between school success and the degree of imagination, but there is no signifi cant connection between school success and empathy. The results of the one-way variance analysis have shown that there is a signifi cant difference in the degrees of empathy and imagination regarding pupils’ gender, which means that the female pupils have expressed more empathy and imagination that the male ones. A signifi cant difference has also been found in the degree of empathy and imagination regarding school success. The pupils with a higher school success (very good, excellent) have expressed a greater empathy and imagination than those with a lower success (suffi cient). However, no signifi cant difference has been found in the degree of empathy and imagination regarding the size of a place where they attend school. Hence, the infl uence of the size of a place where school is located on the degree of pupils’ empathy and imagination has not been established. Due to the insuffi cient number of respondents in certain categories, especially in determining a signifi cant difference in the degree of empathy and imagination regarding school success, the conclusions have to be taken with doubt and further more analytically investigated in the future researches.

Keywords

primary school eighth graders; pupils’ emotional empathy and imagination; pupils’ gender; school success; a "bigger’’ town; "smaller" towns

Hrčak ID:

81003

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/81003

Publication date:

10.4.2012.

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