Abstract:

This study is an imaginary study aimed at studying the behavior of their children’s emotional socialization during the pandemic process of parents with children in the pre-school period. In the private 9 pre-school education institutions associated with the Ministry of National Education in the province of Elazığ, the education before and after pandemic in these institutions is the parents of 87 children who continue to educate with the parents of 87 children (26.4 percent 29 years and 6 years, 62.1 percent 30-39 years, 11.5 percent 40-49 years. The average age of the mother participants included in the study was 32,53±5,43, at least 25 and up to 46 years old; the average age of the father participants was 34,79±3,95 at least 26 and up to 45 years old). The study used the measurement of coping with the negative emotions of children adapted to Turkey by Fabes and his friends (1990), developed by Rağmurlu and Yavuz (2013), in order to measure the emotional socialization behavior of parents' children. The study found that parents' disturbed reaction levels, punitive reaction levels, and undermining reaction levels were higher during the pandemic process. It has been found that parents’ levels of encouragement to emotional expressions, levels of emotional-oriented reactions and levels of problem-oriented reactions are higher before the pandemic. The study found that before the pandemic, parents had differences in their emotional socialization behavior depending on the gender. In the pandemic process, the educational conditions of the parents, the gender of the children and their birth orders have seen significant differences in the behavior of the parents to socialize their emotions. The study found that parents had more emotional socialization behaviors before the pandemic, while the relationship between parents and children was broken during the pandemic process than before the pandemic.

Keywords: