摘要：The aim of this study is to determine the empathetictendency levels of the athletes dealing with team and individual sports, and tospecify whether there is a statistically significant difference concerninggender and sports experience variables. In total, 524 volunteer athletes (232 males and 292 females) participated inthe study, whose ages ranged between 15 and 27. The “Empathy in the SportsEnvironment (ESE)” scale, which was developed by Erkuş and Yakupoğlu (2001),was used in the study for the data collection. The SPSS 22.0 package program wasused in the analyses of the data. The Independent Samples T test was employed forthe paired comparisons, and the Spearman’s rho correlation analysis fordetermining the relations among the variables. The significance level wasaccepted as p<0.05 in the evaluation of the results.As the conclusion of the study, it was determined thatthere was statistically no significant difference between the athletes dealingwith team and individual sports concerning the emotional empathy dimension;however, it was determined that the athletes dealing with team sports gainedhigher scores in the prediction dimension; it was found that the emotionalempathy scores of the female athletes were higher for the gender variable andmale athletes had higher scores concerning the prediction dimension.Considering the sports experience dimension, it was determined that the higherthe years of experience, the higher the levels of emotional empathy andprediction.
