Abstract:

Emotion socialization, with a general definition, refers to responses of the people who are important in child’s life towards children's emotions and communications with the child regarding emotions. In the study, it was aimed to examine the change of emotional socialization behaviors of mothers and fathers with preschool children according to parent gender. In the study, the relational screening model was chosen as the research method. The study group of the research consisted of 378 mothers and 357 fathers whose children were educated in kindergardens in 3 districts of Istanbul in the 2018-2019 academic year. Responses to Children's Emotions Questionnaire was used as data collection tool. According to this study, It was determined that mothers preferred positive emotion socialization behaviors towards their children's emotions more than fathers, and fathers preferred negative emotion socialization behaviors more than mothers. With this; It is seen that mothers and fathers with a high level of education prefer negative emotion socialization behaviors less and as the monthly household income increases, both mothers and fathers have more negative emotion socialization behaviors were found to be less preferred. In addition, it was determined that mothers who do not work in any job use both positive and negative emotion socialization behaviors more than working mothers.

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