Effect of the sport training on empathy ability of the vocational school students in Turkey

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of the sport training on empathy ability of the vocational school students in Turkey.The research population comprised of the vocational school for girls and 41 students in three class were taken as sample. All students in these classes participated in the study voluntarily. A total of 62 students were surveyed and 21 survey has been canceled owing to faults. As data collection tools, inquiry form and Empathic Ability Scale (EAS) were used to determine the demographic variables and scores of empathy ability of the participants respectively. The findings indicated that there was a significant statistically different between pre test and post test on empathy scores of participants (,0.001, p<0.05). These findings were discussed in terms of empathy ability of the students and sport training in vocational school for girls in Turkey.

Keywords: Empathy, Sport training, Vocational school.