Evaluation of the Relationship between Social Skill Levels of 60 Month-Children and over with Preschool Education and Child Rearing Attitudes of Their Mothers

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between social skill levels of 60 month-children and over with preschool education and child rearing attitudes of their mothers. The population of the research was comprised of 60 month-children and over studying at nursery schools in central districts of Kırıkkale and official independent preschools during 2011-2012 school year, and their mothers. By using the random sampling method, it is found that the number of subjects should be at least 780. Thus, 800 children and their mothers formed the sample of the research. General Information Questionnaire, Social Skill Scale andParent Attitude Research Instrument - PARI Scala was used in the study. The data collected in the research are analysed with SPSS 20.0 by usingPearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. In the statistics, 0,05 is chosen as the significance level.The results of the study show that; a positive, meaningful and low relationship (p<0,05) is found between democratic attitude and equality protection dimension of the family’s child rearing attitude scale and social cooperation, social independence - social acceptance and social interaction of social skills of the children. In addition, a positive, meaningful and low relationship (p<0,05) is found between over-monitoring motherhood dimension of the child rearing attitude scale of the mothers and social independence - social acceptance and social interaction of social skills of the children. Also, a negative, meaningful and low relationship (p<0,01) is found between denial of the housewife role and over discipline dimensions of the child rearing attitude scale of the mothers and social interaction of social skills of the children.