Full Length Research Paper

An investigation of emotional skills of six-year-old children attending nursery school according to some variables

Neslihan Durmuşoğlu-Saltali¹ and Emel Arslan²*

¹Faculty of Education, Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey.

²Faculty of Ahmet Keleşoğlu Education, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: emaslan@selcuk.edu.tr .

Accepted 12 May, 2011

  Abstract

The purpose of this study is for the emotional skills of six-year-old children attending nursery school according to some variables. The participants were 306 (135 girls and 171 boys) six-year-old children attending nursery school. Data were collected from Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills and personal information form. In order to analyze data, t test, one way variance analysis and tukey test were employed. The findings of the study revealed that emotional skills of six-year-old children attending nursery school significantly varied according to the variables of gender, educational level of mother and father, the status of receiving previous pre-school education and number of children in the family.

Key words: Emotional skill, children, nursery school.