Introduction Aim: Empathy is the study of understanding the feelings of the person by placing\nhimself/herself in another's shoes. This study was planned to evaluate the empathic tendencies of\nnursing students.\nMethod: This study is a descriptive study. 216 nursing students studying in ArtvinÃ?â?¡oruh University\nHealth High School formed the sample of the study. \"Sociodemographic characteristics form\" and\n\"Empathic Tendency Scale\" were used as a data collection tool.\nFindings: The average age of the sample was 20.57, and empathic tendencies did not vary according\nto age group (p>0.05). Although females had higher tendencies than males, the difference was not\nsignificant (p>0.05). The empathic tendencies of 3rd and 2nd grade students were higher than other\ngrades but the difference was not significant (p>0.05). Students were regular high school graduates\n(52.8%), medical vocational high schoolgraduates (11.6%) and other high school graduates (35.6%),\nthere was no difference between the groups (p>0.05). The majority of the sample (46.8%) lived in\ncities, however, their empathic tendencies did not vary significantly according to place of living\n(p>0.05).Although the empathic tendency point average of students with nuclear families (68.486)\nwas higher than the average of students with extended family (67.342), there was no significant\ndifference between these two groups (p>0.05). The majority of families of the students (81.5%) were\nfrom middle income group, 14.4% of them were from low income group and 4.2% of them were from\nhigh income group, and the empathic tendency point averages of these groups were significantly\ndifferent from each other (p<0.05). Educational statuses of fathers and mothers were, respectively,\nprimary school, secondary school and higher education, and the empathic tendencies of both fathers\nand mothers did not vary according to educational status (p>0.05).\nResult: It was observed that the empathic tendencies of the students did not vary according to\nvariables such as age, gender, grade, place of living, graduated high school, family type, family\nincome level and the educational statuses of father and mother. It was observed that students with\nmiddle and high family income levels had higher points than the students with low family income\nlevels.
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