Empatia jako ważny czynnik w procesie komunikacji i interakcji międzyosobowej dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym
Empathy as an important factor in communication and interpersonal interaction among pre-school children

Summary/Abstract: Empathy means as much as compassion, ability, and the ability to understand the emotional state of another person. It would seem that if it is a feeling, an emotion, it does not depend on us wheth-er we will feel it or not. Nothing more wrong. We can teach and learn empathy throughout our lives. In upbringing, it is mainly about shaping a socially, emotionally sensitive human being for all kinds of changes in the environment. This can be expected to some extent from pre-school chil-dren. The child’s emotional processes depend to a large extent on the functioning of his nervous and hormonal systems – on the general health, and perhaps mainly from contacts with the closest family members, from early social experiences and later from the atmosphere prevailing in thepeer environment. The pre-school period is the time preparing the child to study at school, stay in a wider environment. The level of empathy that he presents in pre-school age will greatly facilitate his communication and interaction at school. The presented research results were aimed at deter-mining the degree of empathy in pre-school children. Analysis of the research material allowed to determine the empathic behavior of preschoolers in terms of age and gender and their maturation to empathy.

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