Evaluation of teacher candidates' level of altruism according to some variables

The purpose of this study is to examine the altruism levels of the students of the School of Physical Education and Sports. For this purpose, Dumlupınar University and Erciyes University were the target population of the study and volunteer participants (n = 401) were randomly selected from the students of the School of Physical Education and Sports. The data collection tools are the personal information form (age, gender, university, income level, education status of mother and father, and place of residence), and altruism scale developed by London and Bower (1968) was applied to determine the altruism level of participants. Adapted to Turkish by Akbaba (2001). The obtained data was recorded in the IBMM Spss packet program. Parametric and non-parametric distributions of the statistical data are examined. Parametric and nonparametric curves, skewness-kurtosis values show a parametric distribution of the data. Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test were applied for statistics. As a result, a significant relationship was found between altruism and gender, university and living place. It is thought that the altruistic level of teacher candidates is influenced by the social environment they born and raised, peer relations at school or out of school, happiness in the family and intercultural interactions during their education