Abstract:

The research was conducted with the aim of studying the relationship between the communication skills of the parents who are a pre-school child and the social skills of their children and the problem behavior. The universe of research 2015-2016 Education teaching year forms 48-72 months of children and families of the official primary schools located in Aziziye, Palandöken and Yakutiye central districts of the Erzurum province, independent primary schools, primary primary schools and private primary schools.  The sample of the study was made by 577 children and parents identified using the random group sample formula from the universe. The study used "General Information Form", "Social Skills Scale", "Problem Behavior Scale" and "Mother-Father-Child Communication Assessment Tool". The study found that the communication skills of the parents vary according to the parent-parent variable, the mother’s educational status and the father’s educational status (p<0.05); the parents vary according to the variable of the year of marriage (p>0.05). It has been found that the points that children receive from the sum of the "Social Skills Scale" and the points that their parents receive from the sub-dimensions of the "Mother-Father-Child Communication Assessment Tool" of Speech, Hearing, Wordless Communication, Empathy and Message are in a positive direction and a meaningful relationship (p<0.05). The scores that children obtain from the total "Problem Behavior Scale" and the scores that parents obtain from the "Mother-Father-Child Communication Assessment Tool" from the subdimensions of Speech, Wordless Communication and Empathy are found to have a negative and meaningful relationship (p<0.05).