The observation of the relationship between the attitudes of handball 1ST league of sportswoman towards the fairplay and their level of empathetic disposition

The aim of the study is to investigate whether there is a differentiation between the fair play understanding and empathic tendency levels of female handball players in line with various variables. The population of the study is made up of athletes of the Women's Handball Teams, and the sample of it, on the other hand, is the athletes of 1st League women's handball clubs. In our study, there are a total of 150 athletes from 11 sports clubs. In our study, personal information form including some variables (age, education level, marital status, sport year, year of practicing with the same trainer), Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Multidimensional Sportsmanship Orientation Scale have been used as a data collection tool. SPSS 25 statistical program has been used to analyze the data. "p <0.05" has been determined as the significance level. T-test for pairwise comparisons between groups, Anova test for more than two multiple comparisons and Tukey test for finding significant differences between groups have been applied. In the study findings, no statistically significant difference has been found in the examination of the sub-dimensions of empathic tendency levels in terms of demographic variables, but a statistically significant difference has been observed in the fantasy sub-dimension in terms of the variable of the practicing year with the same trainer. No statistically significant difference has been found in the analysis of fair play sub-dimensions in terms of demographic variables. It is observed that the development experienced in any of the empathic tendency subscales of the individuals also affects other subscales positively and highly, likewise, the development in any of the fair play subscales affects the other subscales positively and highly.