Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of mother's attitude on preschool children's perspective taking skills. The universe of the research, which is carried out descriptively in the relational survey model, consists of preschool children and their mothers who study in public kindergartens in the central districts of Kahramanmaraş (Onikişubat and Dulkadiroğlu) in the 2019-2020 academic year. The sample of the study consists of 256 children and 256 mothers selected from the universe by simple random sampling method. In the research, “Personal Information Form”, “Perspective Taking Test for Children” and “Parental Attitude Scale” were used as data collection tools. As a result of the research, it was determined that democratic mother attitude positively affects the ability to take perspective, and overprotective mother attitude negatively affects the ability to take perspective. It was found that authoritarian and permissive mother attitudes did not significantly affect their ability to take perspective. Besides, a significant relation was found between the duration of preschool education, family income level, parents-graduation status, maternal age, parental occupation, and the ability to take perspective. No significant relationship was found between gender, number of children in the family, child's birth order, father's age variables and ability to take perspective.

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