Abstract:

This study was aimed to examine the preschool children’s cognitive functions according to the socioeconomic level variable. The research is designed in relational screening model and the sample of the research consists of 124 (64 girls, 60 boys) children studying in kindergartens and kindergartens in Edirne city center under the Ministry of National Education. In the study, the "General Information Form" created by the researcher to collect demographic information and the "Application of Cognitive Functions Scale" developed by Lidz and Jepsen (2007), adapted to Turkish culture by Akşin Yavuz (2016) were used to evaluate children’s cognitive functions. The frequency, percentage and averages of demographic variables collected with the General Information form were found in the study. In order to determine the normality of the distribution of pre-test and post-test scores of the pre-school children included in the study, the kurtosis and skewness scores were evaluated and a One-Way Analysis of Variance (one-way ANOVA) was performed because the distribution normality was obtained. In cases where there are more than two variables, the number of participants in the demographic variables of the preschool students included in the study was not equally distributed, and the Welch ANOVA analysis was used to calculate. LSD Posthoc test was applied to determine the source of the difference in the ANOVA analysis with significant difference, and the source of the difference was determined by this analysis. According to the results of the research, it was determined that the socioeconomic level of the families, the income level of the family and the education level of the parents were effective in the performance of children’s cognitive functions. It has been determined that as the parents’ socioeconomic level, income level and education level increase, the children’s cognitive function performances also increase.

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