Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effect of mother's communication skills on children's communication skills in 5-6 year-old children. In the study, 436 boys and 426 girls between 5-6 years total of 862 children and mother participated who are educated in kindergartens and kindergartens belonging to the public and private sectors in the districts of Antalya province center, Manavgat, Finike and Alanya in 2015-2016 academic year.The research was prepared according to the relational screening model. The data of the study were collected through the Personal Information Form, the Parent-Child Communication Assessment Tool and the Communication Skills Questionnaire for Children 5-6 years old. In the analysis of the data were used descriptive statistics and path analysis model with observed variables. According to the results of the research, it has been found that mother's communication has a significant and positive predictive effect between communication, listening, nonverbal communication, message and empathy sub-dimensions and child's communication in active communication, considering others in communication, following rules in communication.

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