The Phenomenon of Congruent Empathy

Correlation of "Emotional Burnout" and Various Forms of Empathy Manifestations for Teachers of Technical Higher Education Institutions

“…Gippenreiter show that effective pedagogical interaction is possible only with congruent empathy. Congruence in empathy, according to the author, is achieved by the ability to consistently express the understanding of the other and flexibly switch with the sincere expression of one's own feelings, including nega-tive ones, without losing the positive acceptance of the other [18]. The purpose of the research presented in this article is to study the relationship of burnout syndrome among teachers of institures of higher education with various forms of empathy.…”

The Phenomena of Empathy and Congruence

“…Iu. B. Gippenreiter and co-authors [2] have attempted to provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the phenomena of pseudo-empathy and congruent empathy. A splendid review of the literature on the problem of empathy, which is both exhaustive and concise, sets the tone of the entire article, the basic task of which is, according to the authors, to achieve a "clearer understanding of empathy."…”