Compression between; Canadian and Turkish students, self compassion, compassion,emotinal intelligence

This research examines; Canadian and Turkish university students' differences in self-compassion, emotional intelligence and the level of compassion, due to their socio-demographic characteristics. Field research is made with Canadian students from Toronto University and Ryersen University with the required condition of more than 10 years living in Canada and Turkish students from Istanbul Arel University, Istanbul Kültür University ve Sabahattin Zaim University living in Turkey. The participant university students are studying in fields of; Psychology, Psychological Counseling, Engineering, Law, Medicine and Business Administration. The research used; Self-Compassion Scale, Emotional Intelligence Scale and Compassion Scale for Canadian students. While in Turkey, the Turkish adapted versions of same scales, with proven validity and reliability were used. Research data were analyzed with the use of SPSS 23 software. In the analysis; T-Test, Correlation Analysis, Versatile Variants Analysis and Manova methods were used. The research shows that Turkish university students has higher level of self-compassion than Canadian university students. The difference between them are found statistically reasonable. The social sub-scale of emotional intelligence scale of university students differs by Country. The participants live in Turkey have significantly higher average points than the participants living in Canada. The sub-scales of Compassion Scale, namely kindness, recklessness, irritation and disengagement differs by Country. Average kindness sub-scale points of Turkish participants are significantly higher than Canadian participants. The participants from Canada have significantly higher points in; recklessness, irrelation and disengagement sub-scales than participants from Turkey. There are significant differences found in the point averages of social, emotional intelligence and disengagement sub-scales related to Country and social class level. Likewise, female participants had higher average points than male participants in the sensuality, kindness and x conscious awareness sub-scales. On the other hand, male participants had higher average points than female participants in the recklessness, irrelation and disengagement sub-scale. Key Words: Compassion, Emotional İntelligence, Self Compassion