THE EMPHATIC TENDENCY OF PRE-SERVICE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS (THE SAMPLE OF CANAKKALE 18 MART UNIVERSITY)

Empathy skills seem important to live healthy communication process. Teaching profession is based on communication. Teachers’ high empathy skills provide to effective process for students. In faculty of education should be tried to developed empathy skills. This study aimed to determine the emphatic tendency level of pre-service primary school teachers. Also, it was investigated the emphatic tendency level of pre-service primary school teachers according to gender and hometown. The present situation was exactly described so this study was designed as a descriptive study. The Emphatic Tendency Survey, developed by Dokmen (1988), was used as a collecting data tool during this study. Scale is 5-point Likerttype. Rating is formed as “Completely Disagree”, “Mostly Disagree”, “Undecided”, “Mostly Agree” and “Completely Agree”. The scale consists of 20 items. Data were obtained from 205 Pre-Service Primary School Teachers who studied at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in 2014-2015 academic year (fall semester) via survey forms. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS. Descriptive statistics such as arithmetic mean, standard deviation, minimum-maximum values, percentage calculation also t-test and Anova were applied on data. The average point of pre-service primary school teachers’ emphatic tendency level was calculated as 71.38 points. As a result of this study, there were no significant differences in the emphatic tendency level of pre-service primary school teachers according to gender and hometown variables.