An outlook on social emotional development of children through mothers’ views
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This study aimed to investigate social emotional development of children through the views of mothers. The study is conducted by using mixed method. The quantitative part is designed in order to obtain the study group of the qualitative part of the study. 36-72 month old children who are going to a preschool in Mamak district of Ankara form the quantitative part and their mothers form the qualitative part of the study. Social emotional sub dimension of GECDA (Gazi Early Childhood Children Evaluation Tool) which is developed by Temel et al. (2005) is used and the volunteer mothers whose children have the highest and lowest scores in GECDA are included in the qualitative part of the study. For the qualitative part, the semi structured interview involves questions to obtain the view of mothers towards the support of social emotional development of their children. The results put forward the awareness of mothers about the social and emotional development of their children.
Keywords: Social development, emotional development, socialization, mother child relationship.
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