Investigation of self perceptions and psychological health of children living in different socio-cultural environments

This study, which was conducted to reveal the self-perceptions and resilience levels of 5-6 year old children living in different sociocultural environments, was carried out in the relational screening model, which is one of the quantitative research methods. The universe of the research consisted of children aged 5-6 years attending pre-school education in Hatay province İskenderun district and villages of İskenderun district. Data were collected by reaching 296 students with the cluster treatment method. "Personal Information Form", "Purdue Self-Concept Scale for Preschool Children (PSCS)" and "Social Emotional Well-Being and Psychological Resilience Scale for Preschool Children (PERIK)" were used as data collection tools. The obtained data were analyzed with the SPSS package program, the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal Wallis-H test according to the number of categories of the independent variables. The Bonferroni test was used to examine group differences in significant differences. The relationship between the variables was calculated with the Spearman Rho correlation coefficient. According to what was obtained in the research, the self-perception level of the people living in the city center and in the village is the highest social competence sub-class, while the lowest academic competence is the sub-deficiency. While the psychological resilience level of the children living in the city center is maintaining the highest self-control, the lowest is stopping the emotional stability. The highest level of scrutiny regarding the resilience of people living in the village, while the least emotional stability is stopping. It has been determined that children in different sociocultural environments differ in their self-perceptions and psychological resilience according to where they live, and this situation is determined as children living in the city center. It was determined that the relationship between the dimensions of self-perception and the dimensions of psychological resilience was positive and at a low level.