Abstract:

This study aims to examine the social-emotional competence of pre-school children according to their parents' education level. General scanning model was used in the study. The study sample consisted of 188 children attending pre-school education in Soma District of Manisa province, 188 mothers, and 188 fathers. Personal Information Form and Social-Emotional Skills and Psychological Resilience Scale for Preschool Children (SESPRS-Preschool) were used as data collection tools in the study. Data collection tools were filled by pre-school teachers based on approximately seven months of observation for each child. Based on the normal distribution findings, analyses were carried out with the parametric One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique. Bonferroni, one of the post-hoc techniques, was applied to determine the differences between the groups. According to the findings of the study, it was seen that pre-school children's emotional knowledge/expression of emotion, empathy, self-regulation, social competence sub-dimensions, and SESPRS-Pre-School level differ statistically according to the educational status of their parents. According to this result, parents' education level with pre-school children can affect their children's social-emotional competence.

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