Abstract:
Through this study we intended to tackle empathy as a multidimensional construct and to confirm its influence on
man’s creativity. The analysis of the empathy’s conceptual approaches enables to define empathy as a psychic
phenomenon, a psychic process, a psychic product and a psychic trait. The relation between empathy and creativity is
the following: each of these two psychic phenomena has a predisposition potential representing a necessary basis (with
a hereditary programme) on which the future empathic or creative behaviour is built. In displaying these two psychic
traits there is a different affective-cognitive ratio; creativity as well as empathy are considered traits, features of the
personality; both phenomena display themselves as a process; both processes end with a different product; they relate
with the intelligence, the motivation, the affectivity and the aggressiveness; both phenomena can be trained.
This parallel confirms the idea that these two traits interact with each other; empathy contributes to the creative
performance in many fields of activity, but creativity supports the display of empathic abilities at the capacity level.