Evaluation of the empatic tendency levels and agression relationship of physical education and sports students from different departments

The main purpose of this study, to determine the empatic tendency and agression relationship of physical education and sports highschool students from different departments with the help of several variables.Survey model used as a method of this research. Physical Education and Sports School students composed the population of the study. The sample of the study is 993(368 female, 625 male) physical education and sports students from Gazi University studying in different sections. In this context; the students who attended the classes between the academic year of 2011-2012 has been reached. First, the current information about the purpose of study given in a systematic way by searching the literature, thus a theoretical framework was created about the subject. Later, a Personal Information Form created by researcher used to reach demographic information of the students participating in the study. In research; "Aggression Inventory" developed by Kiper (1984) and composed of 30 items was used to evaluate agression levels and ?Empatic Tendency Scale? developed by Dökmen (1988) was used in order to determine empatic levels of the students.In data analysis, the descriptive statistics has been given, MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance) was used to show groups differ in more than one dependent variable and Pearson's correlation analysis was used to interpret relationships between variables. In evaluating the data and calculating the values SPSS 17 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) package program was used. All statistical analyzes were performed as the significance level of 0.05 and 0.01.Results;?According to the gender variable female students had significantly higher levels of empathic tendency than male students,?Teaching department students have higher score than others with the regard of department variable in empathic tendency.?According to type of education variable normal education students have statisticaly higher total agression score than evening education students.When the correlation of all students aggression and empathic tendency levels investigated,?a low level negative correlation between destructive aggression and empathic tendency levels,?a moderate positive correlation between empathic tendency and assertiveness levels.?the low level of negative correlation between total agression and empathic tendency, were found statisticaly significant.