A research on prescholl children attachment patterns with respect to behavior problems and parental psychopathological symptoms

The main aim of this research is preschool period attachment patterns, behavior problems and observing aspect of parents psychopathological symptoms. The sample of this research is 503 preschool education student and their mothers and their teachers in the center of Usak city. In this research "Preschool Behavior Problems Carding Questionnaire" is used for determining the behavior problems of the preschool term, "Family Information Form" filled by family for learning demographic information related to family and child, "Attachment Story Completion Test" to evaluate children attachment patterns, "SCL-90-R" for detecting mother‟s psychopathologic symptoms. When examined findings of research in proportion to behavior problems insecure adherent children is seen higher than secured adherent children and insecure adherent children mothers psychopathologic problems is seen higher than secured adherent children. Insecure adherent children are more aggressive / offensive, anxious / weepy, excessive dynamic / careless than secured adherent children. And also insecure adherent children mothers are detected more somatiziation, okb , depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety than secured adherent children. Key Words : Attachment, Attachment Pattern, Behavior Problems, Psychopathological symptom