Griggs Development of Personality: Empathy

Thirty-eight noncounselor subjects were administered a sixty-four item questionnaire to measure empathy (Hogan Empathy Scale) just prior to instruction, and three months following regular practice ofTranscendental Meditation (TM). Encouraging but nonsignificant statistical results were obtainedfor empathy levels for this subject sampling. A second group of seventeen nonrandomized, noncounselor, long-term meditators were also administered the Hogan Empathy Scale. Significant statistical results (p < .001) were obtained when comparing empathy levels of long-term practitioners of TM with both short-term meditators and nonmeditators.