Empathic Tendencies of Pre-Service Physical Education and Sports Teachers

Yıl 2018, , 689 - 694, 15.07.2018

Cansel Arslanoglu , Ahmet Mor

https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.7.3.689

Öz

The aim of this study is to investigate the empathic tendency
levels of physical education teacher candidates according to some variables.
Study group consists of 117 pre service physical education and sports students
(74 women and 43 men) of Kafkas University in the fall semester of 2015/2016
academic year. “Personal Information Form” and the "Empathic Tendency
Scale" which developed by Dokmen was used to collect data. In the
evaluation of data, firstly, normality hypothesis and Shapiro Wilk and Levene
tests for homogeneity of variances have been used. In paired comparisons,
independent samples t-test and in comparison of more than one group, one-way
analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey multiple comparison test have been used.
SPSS 21 statistical package program was used and the results were considered
significant at p <0.05 level. As a result of the study, it can be said that
gender, age, class, place of education, parent education level and family
monthly income variables did not affect the empathic tendency levels of the
physical education teacher candidates.

Anahtar Kelimeler

: Emphatic tendency, physical education, pre-service teacher

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