Abstract:

There are social interactions between the person and others. These interactions lead to the social identity development process. The social identity of the child starts to be shaped within the family, school and close social environment during early childhood. The purpose of this study was to determine the social identity development of the five years old preschool children. The differences between girls and boys were also tested. The sample consisted of 125 female and 125 male five years old age preschool children. Dumans SKD Social Identity Rating Scale was applied for data collection purposes. Arithmetic means and standard deviations were used descriptively and t-Test was applied for the group differences. Results showed that children’s social identity development needs to be supported and there were no significant differences between girls’ and boys’ developmental levels.

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