Open AccessCommunication skills of teachers and the effect of emphatic tendency behavior on levels of liking of children
Author(s) -
Celal Teyyar Uğurlu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eğitim ve öğretim/eğitim ve öğretim
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2148-239X
pISSN - 2146-0655
DOI - 10.14527/v3n2m5
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , affect (linguistics) , communication skills , population , mathematics education , sample (material) , school teachers , developmental psychology , medical education , geography , medicine , communication , chemistry , cartography , environmental health , chromatography
The purpose of this study was to investigate the communication skills of elementary school teachers and the effect of their emphatic tendencies on their levels of liking of children. This study tried to reveal the communication skills of the teachers and how their levels of liking of children affect their emphatic tendencies together and one by one. The population included 2076 teachers who worked at 81 elementary schools in Sivas province in the 2011-2012 academic years. Within the elementary schools, 35 schools were randomly selected. The sample of this study comprised 906 teachers who worked at these schools. Out of the applied scales, 416 actionable scales were evaluated. The data was collected via "Communication Skills Evaluation Scale", "Emphatic Tendency Scale" and "Barnett Liking of Children Scale". It was concluded from the study that the communication skills and emphatic tendencies of the teachers affected their levels of liking of children and communication skills together with the emphatic tendencies increased this effect a little more.