44 The Examination Of The Relationship Between The Preschool Teacher Candidates’ Emotional Intelligence and Empathic Tendency Hakan Sarıçam* 5 İsmail Çelik 6 Medera Halmatov 7 Abstract The aim of this study is the examination of the relationship between the preschool teacher candidates’ emotional intelligence and empathic tendency. This research is a descriptive study; The study group is composed of 90 (28 male, 62 female) university students at the department of preschool teacher who are chosen randomly. The Scale of Emotional Intelligence and The Sacle of Empathic Tendency are used for research. Data of this study is analyzed with t test, Pearson Moment Correlation Analysis and Simple Regresyon Analysis at SPPS 17 package programme for Windows. According to findings, empathic tendency were found to be significantly correlated to emotional intelligence. A significant effect of empathic tendency on emotional intelligence was also detected. Key words: Emotional intelligence, Empathy, Empathic tendency Introduction Education is a concept which is existed with the history of human being. This concept has a need of communication of teacher and the student. Today, technological devices have taken the 5 * Res.Asist., Kilis 7 Aralık University, Muallim Rıfat Education Faculty, Kilis, hakansaricam@gmail.com 6 Asist.Prof.Dr., Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Education Faculty, Ağrı, icelik@agri.edu.tr 7 Asist.Prof.Dr., Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Education Faculty, Ağrı, mhalmatov@agri.edu.tr TOJCE: The Online Journal of Counselling and Education - April 2012, Volume 1, Issue 2 Copyright © TOJCE www.tojce.net