KARATE HAKEMLERİNİN STRES FAKTÖRLERİNİN DEĞİŞKENLERE GÖRE BELİRLENMESİ VE EMPATİK EĞİLİM İLE İLİŞKİSİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the stress factors of the karate judges according todifferent variables and the relation with the level of empathic inclination. The sample of theresearch consist of 17 women and 81 men who work in international, national and regionalmatches (N = 98) as karate referees in different region of Turkey during 2016- 2017 seasons. Asdata collection scales "stress factor scale for football referees" which created by Çakmak (2011)and” Empathic inclination Scale" created by Dökmen (1988) were used. Analysis of the datashowed that the average individual stress level of female judges and the environmental stressscores of the female referees were higher than the average scores of male referees inenvironmental stress points. When the relationship between the empathy scores of the refereesand the individual and organizational stress factor scores were examined, there was a negativeand low level relationship between empathy levels and individual- environmental stress levels. Asa result; when the stress sources of karate referees were examined, it can be said that significantdifferences were found according to gender, age, marital status and experience as refereevariables, and the level of empathic inclination has no effect on the stress factors