Examination of the social behaviours of pre-school children whose parents are married and divorced according to teacher opinions

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research is to examine the social behaviours of 4 age group pre-school children whose parents are married and divorced according to teacher opinions. Screening model method has been used at this research which is one of the descriptive research methods. The study group of this research was created totally 691 children. As a result of the study, it was found that the children whose parents were divorced had higher levels of physical aggression, relational aggression and depressive emotions, and their positive social behaviour levels were lower than the children whose parents were married. It is recommended that parents’ education gets stronger in pre-school education programmes and that prospective teachers are provided with quality learning environments. Thus, it will be possible to integrate the necessary opportunities into the teaching practice in the education proce.

KEYWORDS:

• Pre-school
• social behaviour
• 4 age
• teacher education
• teacher training programme

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Dervise Amca Toklu

Dervise Amca Toklu was born in 1991. She completed her undergraduate education in 2013 in the Department of Preschool Teacher Education at the Faculty of Education, Near East University. She completed her master’s degree in Near East University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Preschool Teaching Department and started to work as a lecturer in Preschool Education Department. She continues her PHD in Education Programs and Teaching at Department of the Institute of Educational Sciences of the same university.