Communication skills and empathy are important skills that university students should gain before getting a start in their business life and complete their personal development. The aim of this study was to investigate the communication skills and empathic tendencies of the undergraduate students studying at university in terms of gender, the type of the faculty, family attitude, participation to out-of-school activities and place they live. The study was carried out with a total number of 421 participants studying at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University as undergraduate student. The data was obtained using instruments respectively as personal information form, communication skills evaluation scale, empathic tendency scale. Kolmogorov Smirnov and Shapiro Wilk tests of normality were carried out in order to test the normality of the data. Both parametric (Independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA) and non-parametric (Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis H) tests were used in order to examine the communication skill and emphatic tendency scores according to socio-demographic variables. Post-hoc tests (Tukey HSD, Dunn-Bonferroni) were performed in order to determine the significant differences between groups. The results of the study indicates that the empathic tendency and communication skill scores of participants were in modetate level. Moreover, analyzing the average scores for empathic tendency and communication skills, it is determined that the average empathic tendency and communication skills scores of the students studying in physical education and sports school were higher than the students studying in other faculties. In conclusion, it is thought that the findings of the present study will contribute to the administrators that shape and determine the policies regarding education and other activities in higher education institutions in terms of developing communication skills of university students.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Sports Medicine |
Journal Section | Article |
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Publication Date | December 28, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 4 Issue: 3 |