Özet:

The purpose of the study is to study the relationship between the perceptions of the father's role of the parents who have a child in the pre-school period and the relationship between the father's child. The sample of the study, designed in the relational scan model, was created from 1015 fathers who had a child in the 3-6-year-old group and participated voluntarily in the research. The research data was collected in the 2018-2019 educational year, using the Personal Information Form, the Child Parental Relationship Scale, the Father Form and the Father's Role Perception Scale. The analysis of the data used the Mann-Whitney U Test, the Kruskal-Wallis H Test and the Spearman Correlation Test. According to the study, the scores of parents' role perception scale have shown significant differences according to the level of parents' education, the age of parents, the profession of parents, the income, the socio-economic level perceived, the age of becoming the first father, the family structure, the number of children and the age of children. Moreover, it has been found that there is a significant relationship in the negative direction, in the middle level between the parents' perception role scale points and the child's parent relationship scale points. Keywords: Pre-school period; Fatherhood; Fatherhood role perception; Father's child relationship; Social gender.