Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between bully-victim behavior and social skills of preschool children. The study group of this research consisted of 150 children from 25 pre-school education institutions randomly selected from 5-6 year old children attending pre-school education institutions in the city center of Karabuk. In this research in order to collect dataParent Form of PreSchool Social Skills Rating Scale (OSBED) and Bully and Victim Child Behavior Assessment Formwere used. Mann Whitney U and Spearman Brown Correlation Coefficient were used in the analysis of the data. After the results of the research were examined in terms of variables, it was found that the children showed significant differences according to bully, victim behaviors and gender, age; there was a significant difference between children's social skills and gender and age variables. As a result of the research, it was found that girls academic support skills, friendship skills and emotion management skills were higher than boys and friendship skills of 6-year-old children were found to be higher than 5-year-old children. At the end of the study, as the victim-child behaviors increased, initial skills increased, that as the passive bullychild behaviors of children increase, initial skills, friendship skills and emotion management skills increase and it was seen that as bully-child behaviors increased, initial skills, friendship skills and emotion management skills increased.

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