Air Crew Professional High School Students Empathy Ability Training Research

Empathy is not only a psychological counseling skill,an important interpersonal communication skill, but also a new topic in the field of mental health education.As aviation service workers in the future,empathy ability of the air crew professional students in higher vocational college will affect their physical and mental health, relationship with the passengers and their coping style in dealing with emergency.First, this study was based on 406 air crew professional of vocational college students in a higher vocational college as subjects, using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index Scale and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire as research tools. The study explored the air crew professional students' state-of-the-art of empathy ability and coping style (positive coping, negative coping), and their relationships. Second, this study obtained three groups of subjects by the method of cluster sampling. They were processed separately with empathy group counseling training, empathy course guidance training and no training. The number of subjects were 9,41and50, aimed to explore the training effect. Statistics and analysis of these relevant data with descriptive statistics, variance analysis, correlation analysis, t test and other methods, and came to the following specific conclusions:(1) Empathy ability of the air crew professional students in higher vocational college had significant differences in demographic variables, such as gender,whether the class cadre,whether the only child and origin of student. Their coping style had significant differences in demographic variables, such as gender,whether the class cadre and origin of student.(2) There was a significant correlation between empathy ability and coping style. Empathy ability had a significant positive correlation with positive coping.(3) After empathy group counseling, perspective -taking ability of empathy had improved in group guidance group,but no change in the control group. After empathy group counseling,the use frequency of positive coping style had increased in group guidance group, but no change in the control group.(4) After empathy course guidance,fantasy ability of empathy and empathy ability had improved in course guidance group,but no change in the control group. After empathy course guidance,the use frequency of negative coping style had decreased in course guidance group,but no change in the control group.(5) After the completion of training,perspective -taking ability of empathy in group guidance group was better than course guidance group, perspective -taking ability of empathy in course guidance group was better than the control group. fantasy ability of empathy in course guidance group was better than group guidance group,fantasy ability of empathy in group guidance group was better than the control group.In a word, through empathy group counseling and empathy course guidance,air crew professional of higher vocational college students' empathy ability had been better in different aspects, and in terms of overall level of empathy ability, empathy course worked better.