The Comparison of Emphatic Tendencies of the Management Department Students

The aim of the current research is to make a comparison between the university students majoring at the department of sport management at Kafkas University and Atatürk University in terms of empathy level. For data collection, "Emphatic Tendency Scale", which was developed by Dökmen (1994) and which included 20 items, was administered to a total of 463 participants consisting of 174 female and 289 male students. For data analysis, SPSS 16 programme was used for statistical procedures such as frequency analysis for demographic information, independent sample t-test for the comparison of empathy level of gender and university and one-way Anova and Tukey for the comparison of empathy level in terms of age and grade. The results of the study revealed that there were statistically significant differences in gender and empathy level (p = 0.028), age and empathy level (p = 0.026), grade and empathy level (p = 0.039).