Abstract:

This research is done in order to examine the behavioral problems that are seen in the pre-school children and the relation between mother and child. The study is prepared according to the relational screening model. The population of the study is the children that are enrolled in the pre-school institutes and kindergartens based in the central region of the providence of Kutahya as well as the parents of these children. According to the results of the study and based on the Scale of the Relation between Parents and the Child, there is no differentiation due to the age of the mother and her employment status, but it is observed that there is a differentiation due to mother’s educational status. In both the extrinsic and intrinsic behaviors of the child, there is a differentiation based on the age of the mother as well as her educational status. In the same way, the age and the gender of the child plays some role in the differentiation of the extrinsic and intrinsic behaviors of the child.

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