Abstract:

Considering people's daily life, it is seen that many feelings are experienced in the same day, but feelings can not always be experienced naturally in order to sustain social relations. The individual is not independent of the environment in which he or she is living and the people around it. For this reason, it becomes very important to find ways to regulate one's feelings. The purpose of this research is to examine preschool children's emotion regulation skills in terms of various variables. The sample of the study selected by simple random sampling method, consisted of 240 parents and their children between the ages 4-6 who attend independent kindergartens located in Çankaya counties of Ankara during the 2015-2016 academic year. In this study conducted by descriptive screenning model, General Information Form and Emotion Regulation Checklist were used. Kruskal Wallis-H Test, Independent Groups T Test, One Way Anova were used to analyze of data. According to the results of this study, emotion regulation skills of children differ based on mother’s age and educational status and montly income but do not differ based on age,  gender, number of siblings, father’s educational status, mother’s and father’s working status.  

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