Review of the Emphatic Tendencies of University Students in Terms of Some Variables
Assist. Prof. Dr. Aygen Çakmak, Assist. Ezgi Akıncı Demirbaş

Abstract
In this study review of the emphatic tendency levels of university students and determining whether their department, class and birth order lead to any differentiation for emphatic tendency levels of university students were aimed. The study was conducted on 629 University students in Kırıkkale University Faculty of Health Sciences in Turkey. In order to obtain information about students “Personal Information Form” prepared by the researchers and “Emphatic Tendency Scale” developed and confirmed for its validity by Dökmen (1988) were used in the study. The Data obtained during the study was evaluated with “t-test” and “Variance Analysis”. At the end of the study it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between emphatic tendencies of university students and their gender (p<.05), and 4th grade ongoing students had the highest average empathic tendency score. Furthermore, it was detected that there was a significant difference between emphatic tendencies of university students and their birth order (p<.05). However, it was found that their departments didn’t make a significant difference for their emphatic tendencies (p>.05).

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