Özet:

The closure of workplaces, schools and childcare centers in accordance with the measures taken within the scope of the Covid-19 pandemic, made it compulsory for family members to spend longer time at home. Although they are involved in every moment of their children’s lives, it is thought that there are changes in fathers’ parenting skills and parenting skill levels due to the increase in the time they spend at home during the pandemic process. Based on this idea, it was aimed to examine the change in parenting levels of fathers during the Covid-19 process. The study group of this research, which was designed according to the survey model and cross-sectional survey design, which is one of the quantitative research methods, consists of 349 fathers who have at least one child between the ages of 4-18. In the analysis of the data, correlation coefficient values and heat map method were used. As a result of the research; fathers’ competency scale scores and demographic variables are only related to educational status; it has been found that fathers spend more time with their children and strengthen their communication with their children and other family members due to the increase in their competence scale scores and the time they stay at home. In the study, it was also found that the stress level experienced by the father affected the behavior and stress level of his child negatively, that there were changes in the parenting skills of the fathers during the pandemic, and that the fathers who felt inadequate in parenting received support mostly from their spouses, and least from family elders and books when they felt inadequate.