EVALUATION OF INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING AND SOCIAL SKILLS AND PEER RELATIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

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The aim of this study 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, a mixed method was used which combined qualitative and quantitative data. The study group consisted of 109 children, 17 of whom were 48-60 months old and 92 of whom were 60-72 months (57 girls and 52 boys). Based on the findings, there exists a negative and significant relationship between children’s social skills and non-social peer solutions. When the peer relations of the children with high social skills are examined, it was found that those children play together, stimulate their peers, show leadership behaviors, communicate with and help their peers, use the words of courtesy, show patience, wait for their turn, show physical closeness with their peers, question the causes of behaviors, rejection by their peers, complain about their peers, communicate negatively with peers and mockery with their peers. When the peer relations of the children with low social skills are examined, the following behaviors have emerged: desire to be alone, show physical coercion/intervention/rejection towards their peers, complain about their peers, show fear towards authority and losing friendship, communicate negatively with their peers, play with their peers without any verbal communication.

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Social skill , Interpersonal problem solving , Peer solution

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi