Feeling Function of Jung's Psychological Types and Acceptance of Responses of Empathic Images

Abstract

The relationship between the feeling function of Jung's psychological types and acceptance of responses regarding empathic images was investigated. Empathic images were assessed by imagining that a child was showing three feeling expressions of expectation, anger, and sorrow to the mother, and consequently imagining how the mother accepted those feelings. Graduate students (N=116) completed the Empathic Image Task, and the Jung Psychological Types Scale (JPTS). The results showed that the feeling function of women and the intuition function of men were positively correlated with the acceptance of responses regarding empathic images about a child's expression of expectation. However, neither general attitudes nor psychological functions correlated with a child's anger or sorrow. These results suggest that the way feeling function shows acceptance of responses regarding empathic images differs according to gender of the participants and the quality of feeling contents.