Examining the Empathetic Tendency Levels of theAthletes Dealing with Team and Individual Sports

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the empathetic tendency levels of the athletes dealing with team and individual sports,and to specify whether there is a statistically significant difference concerning gender and sports experience variables. In total,524volunteer athletes (232 males and 292 females) participated in the study, whose ages ranged between 15 and 27. The“Empathy in the Sports Environment (ESE)” scale, which was developed by Erkuş and Yakupoğlu (2001), was used in the studyfor the data collection. The SPSS 22.0 package program was used in the analyses of the data. The Independent Samples T testwas employed for the paired comparisons, and the Spearman’s rho correlation analysis for determining the relations among thevariables. The significance level was accepted as p