at the low level. Such data testify to the respondents’ awareness of the importance of
accepting individuality, the ability to attach themselves to the interlocutor, to conceal
and alleviate the unpleasant feelings when faced with his/her incommunicability.
This is evidenced by the ability to forgive others mistakes, inconveniences,
unintentional troubles. This, in turn, can motivate respondents to constantly monitor
themselves, continuous work on self-control and self-regulation. However, in the
manifestation of empathy in professional communication, respondents are showing
low rates. The medium level of empathy is demonstrated by 34.7% of the respondents.
They have difficulty in determining the emotional states of the child, while interpreting
nonverbal means of an adult communication is based on one element, instead of a
complex assessment that distorts the integrity of the information. More than half of the
respondents (65.3%) have low levels of empathy. They have difficulties in nominating
the emotions of the child (for example, some emotions are replaced by their
manifestations (the abuse is denoted as crying, joy – as laughter), confuse them (delight
is marked as joy, fear – irritability, despair, anger – dissatisfaction, hysteria, wonder –
insult, etc.). There were those who could not label emotion with a corresponding
lexeme (30%). Observing the communicative behavior of the respondents revealed a
discrepancy of the non-verbal means used in their speech in 87.5%, which proves the
presence of incongruence.
The reason for this phenomenon may be the unconscious use of nonverbal means.
We assume that such results are due to the low level of respondents’ awareness about
the importance of the empathy’s appearance in the professional activity of a pre-school
education establishment teacher, which reduces the desire and frequency of its
conscious application.
The results of studying the formation level of a professional communicative
culture according to the indicators of the activity criterion are presented in Table 5.
Table 5 Results of the study of the formation level of indicators according to the
activity criterion at the qualifying stage of the study
Levels
Indicators
high
sufficient
medium
low
number %
number %
number %
number %
type of communication
29
10
130
45.1
86
30
43
14.9
communication aesthetics
0
0
15
5.2
86
30
187
65
strategic competence
0
0
21
7.3
100
34.7
167
58
Source: compiled by the authors
As we see, a significant number of respondents (45.1%) prefer the information
type of communication, which is aimed at the transfer or restoration of certain
information and is defined as the sufficient level. About a third (30%) shows a medium
level, using a mentoring (instructive) type of communication. Its characteristic features
are ignoring explanations of the interlocutor, demonstration of the intellectual
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