Abstract:

The aim of this research is to evaluate the interpersonal problem-solving skills and friendship relationships of pre-school children with the lowest and highest social skills score. For this purpose, the research has used the karma method in which qualitative and quantitative data are combined.  The study group consists of a total of 109 children, including 57 girls and 52 boys, who are taking pre-school education for 17 months 48-60 months and 92 for 60-72 months. In the quantitative dimension of the study, the social skills of each child were evaluated by their teachers by the "System of Social Skills Rating-Teacher Form". The lowest (n=9) and the highest (n=10) social skills have been applied to a total of 19 children by researchers in the "Pre-School Interpersonal Problem Solving Test" and the teachers in the "Drexel Early Childhood Behavior Assessment Scale" assessed the behavior of these children. The quality size of the study was observed by children by researchers for a full day in terms of partnership relationships. The study found a significant link between children’s social skills and non-social counterpart solutions in a negative direction. When studying the relatives of children with high social skills, together, the game, encouraging their relatives, directing to appropriate behavior, leadership, communicating with their relatives, helping their relatives, using kind words, patience/awaiting, building physical proximity with their relatives, questioning the causes of behavior, being rejected/not preferred by their relatives, complaining their relatives, negative verbal communications with their relatives and laughing with their relatives. When researched the relatives of children with low social skills, the desire to stay alone, the physical force/intervention of their relatives, the rejection/not preferred by their relatives, the complaint of their relatives, the fear of authority, the fear of losing friendship, the negative verbal communication with their relatives, the play without verbal communication with their relatives, and the communication with their relatives.