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

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.