CAREER EXPECTATIONS AND EMPATHIC TENDENCIES OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: AN EXAMPLE OF NORTHERN CYPRUS

Vocations, while providing the necessary services in terms of the needs of individuals in the society, enable professionals to feel valued and important themselves to the extent they are productive (Ye？ilyaprak. 2011). A successful career is related to the characteristics of the individual as much as the needs for that profession in society. In this study, the relationship between the career expectations of university students and their empathy skills was examined. For this purpose, a personal information form, a vocational outcome expectation scale (I？？k, 2010) and an empathy tendency scale (Ekinci and Aybek, 2010) were applied to 205 students who newly registered to a foundation university in the North Cyprus. Data analyzed with SPSS-23 computer program. In the study group with normal distribution, statistically significant differences on the basis of gender, place of residence and number of siblings whereas no significant differences on the basis of department, scholarship status, jobs of mother and father in the groups were found in the p<.05 level. A positive correlation between the vocational outcome expectations of students and their empathy tendencies (p = .000) can be predicted by the fact that new students at university are expecting positive developments in their careers