The definition emphatic skills of the students attending Physical Education and Sport School of Kocaeli University

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the emphatic skills of the students according to their programs at the Physical Education and Sports school of Kocaeli University. For that purpose, 240 students whose ages were :22.70±2.19 years from programs of Physical Education and Sports Teachers, Coaching, Management of sports, Recreation, at the Physical Education and Sports School of Kocaeli University participated in the this study voluntarily.

Emphatic skill scale developed by Dökmen (1998) was used in the study. In the analysis of data, descriptive statistical techniques; in the independent groups t test, pearson correlation and anova test were used. The data were tested according to the 13.0 statistical program and significance level was found 0.05. It was found that the emphatic skill points of the PE and Sports Teacher program were :138.85±11.81, the emphatic skill points of the Coaching program were :138.46±12.50, the emphatic skill points of Management of Sports program were :143.43±15.92, the emphatic skill points of Recreation program were :141.40±15.07. A significiant difference was not found between the emphatic skill points of the students who were different programs (p>0.05). A significiant difference was found between the emphatic skill of male students :136.46±12.53 and the emphatic skill of female students :145.77±14.09 (p<0.05). Moreover, a significiant relation statistically was found between the emphatic skill and age also between the emphatic skill and gender (p<0.05).    

As a conclusion, empathy has a feature which is bloker for disagreement in communications. However, empathy can provide the contribution to improve social behaviors and for process of coherence in society. According to these explanations, for emphatic students we can say that the students are pieces of structure which will form a emphatic society. In this way, it can be said that the empatic skill points of PE and Sports students are not low but improving the empatic skills of them is important  for a better future of sports in our country.