Examination of variables affecting pre-school teachers' child affectionstatus

In this study, the variables affecting the preschool teachers' liking for children were examined. The data of the study were obtained from 132 preschool teachers working in private and public kindergartens affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Çorlu District of Tekirdağ Province in the 2021-2022 academic year. The Barnett Child Liking Scale (CLS), developed by Barnett and Sinisi (1990) to measure people's attitudes towards children, and a reliability and validity study for Turkey, conducted by Duyan and Gelbal (2008), was used to determine the preschool teachers' level of liking for children. In the study, information about the characteristics of teachers was obtained with the Demographic Information Form prepared by the researcher. In the analysis of the data obtained from the research, parametric tests were used in accordance with the characteristics of the data. According to the findings obtained in the study, there is a statistically significant difference between preschool teachers' scores of liking children according to marital status variable, having children variable, number of children variable and choosing the profession voluntarily. It was determined that there was no significant difference between their scores and ages. In line with the findings, it was concluded that the marital status, having a child and choosing the profession voluntarily affected the preschool teachers' love of children status positively.