ANTRENÖR VE HAKEMLERİN EMPATİ DURUMLARININ ARAŞTIRILMASI

This study aims at measuring the empathy situations of the trainers and the referees from various branches The data has been collected by Üstün Dökmen's and searching the differences between these branches. Empathy Skill Scale which is about putting forward the empathic tendency situations of the trainers and the referees and that each of it has 6 questions with 12 choices. From different branches, 100 trainers and 142 referees have participated voluntarily in this study.
The evaluation of the data is analysed by One Way Anova (Tukey test was used to find difference between groups), Kruskal-Wallis ,t test and Mann-Whitney test . SPSS (10.0 for windows). The highest points of empathy is in fencing branch for trainers and in athletics for referees; the lowest points of empathy is found in table tennis branch both for the trainers and the referees. From the view point of individual and team sports trainers and referees there is no significant difference between the mean of empathy points. A significant difference is found according to gender. The females have much empathic approach in comparison with the males (p<0.05). It has been determined that the education position and the profession have no effect on the empathic approach (p>0.05). The empathy levels of the retireds have been found lower (p<0.05). As there is a difference found between the empathy and the sports done in various levels (p<0.05), there is no difference found between the empathy and the sports duty period, the reason of being trainer and referee and having a previous sports life.