Özet:

In pre-school education, teachers are an important role model that the child encounters after the family and are also persons responsible for their development and education. In early childhood, the influence of teachers on children is quite obvious. The main purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and empathic trends of pre-school teachers. Relative scanning models from general scanning models have been used in the study. The sample of the study was formed by 111 pre-school teachers working in seven districts selected by a simple random sample method from the districts located on the Anadolu and European side of Istanbul. The emotional intelligence of the teachers who formed the example was evaluated by the "Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale", while the "Dokmen Empatic Trend Scale" was used to evaluate their empathic trends. The researchers also collected information on the demographic characteristics of teachers with the "Personal Information Form" prepared by researchers. The data collected from the data collection tools were analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 package program. The analysis of the relationship between the emotional intelligence and empathic trends of pre-school teachers was done with the Pearson Moment's Correlation Screening Technique. To show how much the emotional intelligence of the pre-school teachers spends on their empathic training, multiple regression analysis has been done. The study found that pre-school teachers had a positive meaningful relationship between their emotional intelligence and their empathic tendencies. The highness of emotional intelligence means that the empathic tendency is also high. Regression analyses have found that emotional intelligence has an impact on the empathic tendency. The findings of the research were discussed taking into account the research in the field.

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