Abstract:

The study aimed at studying the relationships between the emotional regulation skills of children living in the center of Sivas and aged between 48-72 months and their mothers' emotional regulation strategies and interpersonal emotional regulation skills. In the research designed as an imaginary study in this context, a relative scanning model has been used. The sample group consisted of 373 children living in the center of the province of Sivas and the mothers of these children, aged between 48 and 72 months. The data was studied by the Mann Whitney U Test and the Kruskal Wallis H Test, taking into account the number of categories of the independent variable. In the results of the reviews, significant differences were used by multiple comparison tests to determine which groups or groups of differences were caused. Spearman Ranking Correlation Scorecard has been used to determine the relationship between the children’s emotional regulation skills and the mothers’ interpersonal emotional regulation skills and the emotional regulation strategies. In statistical analysis, the significance level is determined at 0.05. The study found that the child’s gender, the number of brothers and sisters, the status of going to a pre-school education institution, the age of the mothers, the educational status and the working status of the Emotional Regulation Scale resulted in statistically significant differences over the dimensions of the Emotional Regulation and Emotional Regulation Control. The age and birth order of the child and the Emotional Regulation Scale have not resulted in statistically significant differences on the Dimensions of Change/Negative and Emotional Regulation Control. It has also revealed that there are statistically meaningful relationships between children’s emotional regulation skills and mothers’ emotional regulation strategies and interpersonal emotional regulation skills. In this context, there are recommendations on the results of the research.

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