Abstract
Abstract
 The scope of this study is to examine the relationship between compassion and effective teaching qualities of special education teacher candidates. The working group of the research consists of the special education teacher candidates who are in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and studying in the special education department of the universities in the spring term of 2019-2020. Since it was aimed to determine the compassion levels and effective teacher qualities of special education teacher candidates in the study, the screening model was used as one of the quantitative research methods. In the study, 315 special education teacher candidates participated. “Demographic information form” and “Compassion Scale”, were applied to special education teacher candidates in the study in question. According to the results of the study, it was observed that female special education teacher candidates had higher levels of compassion compared to male special education teacher candidates. According to the age group, the compassion levels of students/teacher candidates aged 18-20 years were higher than those who are 24 years and older. In the study, it was determined that the difference between the scores obtained by the students from the Disconnection sub-scale of the compassion scale according to the family structure was statistically significant.
 
 Keywords: Compassion, Effective Teacher Skills, Candidate Teacher, Special Education.
Highlights
Compassion is an emotion that directs the individual to help or favor themself and the other person (Aydın, 2014)
The objective of this study is to examine the compassion levels of special education teacher candidates in terms of different variables
According to the findings obtained from the table, the mean score of the Tenderness dimension, which is one the sub-dimensions of the Compassion Scale, is 17.38 ± 2.80, the mean score of the Apathy dimension is 7.37 ± 3.02, the mean score of Awareness of Sharing dimension is 17.06 ± 2.44, the mean score of Disconnection dimension is 7.91 ± 2.96, Conscious Awareness mean score is 17.13 ± 2.37, and the Disengagement mean score is 7.27 ± 2.86
Summary
Compassion is an emotion that directs the individual to help or favor themself and the other person (Aydın, 2014). According to Gilbert and Irons (2005), the feeling of compassion is an individual's desire to reduce the pain of the other person, cognitive processes related to finding and trying to understand where the existing pain originates, and current methods for performing compassion-based behaviors. In this regard, a union is formed by the interactions of motive-emotion-thought and behavioral structures within the structure of compassion. The compassionate (sensitive) individual found meaning as a cognitive, behavioral and emotional attitude towards the other person in his / her needy and troubled times (Isgor, 2017)
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