A STUDY ON EMPATHY SKILLS OF ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR PARENTS

In this study, examination of adolescents and their parents empathic skills and adolescent gender differences on the variables of adolescents and their parents empathic skills to determine whether there is cause. The study group, who continued his education in the second year high school located in the city center of Ankara, 300 adolescents and their parents (300 mothers, 300 fathers) has established a total of 900 people. Data collection tools used in the study included a Demographic Information Form and Empathic Ability Scale-Form B developed by Dökmen. Analysis of the data, two-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey s test was used. As a result, the empathic skills of the adolescent, mother and father was significant difference between empathic skills (p 01), gender of adolescents does not cause a significant difference on the empathic skill of adolescents, mothers and fathers (p .05).