Empathic sensitivity and assessment of quality of the student - lecturer relation in training process

Empathy is clearly the characteristics that is desirable in making and maintaining good interpersonal relations. We have adopted, in this paper, the holistic understanding of empathy following M. Kaźmierczak, M. Plopa, S. Retowski (2007), based on the theory of M.H. Davis (1999). We used standardized -by these authors- the empathic sensitiveness scales and we verified the level of empathic sensitivity among students and colleges from the area of the Silesian and Małopolskie voivodeships (sample N = 577). Participants were studying pedagogy, mostly women (n = 547). The study was conducted in 2015 and 2016. In this paper we analyzed the differences in the empathic sensitiveness (in the aspect of perspective-taking, empathic care, personal distress) varied in terms of the assumed results of education in pedagogy, the level of education, the general assessment of quality of the student - lecturer relationship