The Study of 48-60 month-old Preschool Children’s Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Conditions

Çağla Gür, Nurcan Koçak, Arzu Demircan, Banu Baç Uslu, Nurşen Şirin, Münire Şafak

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to examine 48-60 month-old preschool children’s social competence and behavior evaluation conditions. Relations between gender differences, social competence, anger-aggression, and anxiety-introversion are also examined. From the correlational and comparison type of General Scanning Model, Relational Screening is used. The study group is formed with 847 pre-school children (417 girls and 430 boys) who were 48-60 months-old and living in the center of Ankara. Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale (SCBE-30) with a personal information form are used to collect data within the study. Frequency (f) and percentage (%), Arithmetic Mean ( ), Standard Deviation, Ss, Mann Whitney U Test, Correlation Analysis (Pearson Correlation Coefficient) were applied and significance level is determined as 0,05-0,01-. According to the findings, while there was a meaningful difference in favor of girls regarding social competence, the difference in terms of angeragression was higher in boys. However, there was no statistically significant difference regarding anxiety-introversion, girls’ arithmetic mean scores of anxiety-introversion were found higher than boys’. When the relation between social competence, angeraggression and anxiety- introversion is examined, there were reverse relations between social competence and angeraggression; social competence and anxiety- introversion. Contrary to this, the relation between anger- aggression and anxietyintroversion was positive and meaningful.

Keywords

Social Competence, Anger, Aggression, Anxiety, Introversion


DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15390/EB.2015.4563

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