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This study was conducted with the aim of studying the levels of social skills of children in pre-school institutions based on some demographic characteristics. In this context, the research was carried out with 103 children and their mothers who continued to their official independent kindergartens with the motherhood of the official primary schools in the province of Suruç. In the study, the General Information Form for Children was used as a data collection tool to reach the demographic characteristics of children, while the Social Skills Scale was used as a data collection tool to reveal the levels of social skills. The obtained data was analyzed by the t test for independent samples and the one-way variance analysis (ANOVA), and the Tukey HSD test was used to study group differences in meaningful output differences. The study found that the number of brothers and sisters of children and their birth rank, family type, parents' educational status, father's age and their profession did not result in statistically significant differences in the total social skills scores of children. It has also been revealed that gender on children’s OSBED Emotions Management Skills; mother’s age on children’s OSBED Startup Skills; and mother’s working status leads to statistically significant differences on children’s OSBED Academic Support Skills.

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