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Positive family relationships at the center of interpersonal relationships; There is effective communication within the family, the behavior of family members as well as a sense of family unity. Empathy and forgiveness are also important parameters that make communication between people effective in positive identity development and in all areas of our lives. In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between university students' empathy skills, their tendency to forgive and the sense of family unity. For this purpose, in some universities in the sample of 393 students in Turkey are working in line with the 2020-2021 academic year studying in the 18-21 age range. The study was prepared with the relational scanning model, which is one of the quantitative research methods. The data obtained from the study were analyzed using the SPSS 22.00 package program. Independent groups t test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation analysis and chi-square tests were used to analyze the data. As a data collection tool, "Personal Information Form", "Basic Empathy Scale" and "Forgiveness Scale" and "Family Integrity Scale" were used to obtain detailed information about the students participating in the study. As a result, it was found that there is a relationship between understandability and forgiveness and self-forgiveness, between forgiveness and emotional empathy, between forgiveness of someone else and basic empathy and emotional empathy. It was concluded that there is a relationship between family structure and family cohesion. It was found that university students with nuclear families are happy to spend time with their families.

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