The relationship between the social compliance and skill level, family life and child breeding attitudes children between six-ten years evaluated as normal and superior talent according to WISC-IV results

Introduction and Aim: Giftedness refers to being at advanced level of individual in particular areas. It is known that gifted people perceive their environment in a different way. Gifted people who are supported in their early life have an opportunity to demonstrate their potential in their lives. Social skills are expressed as understanding one's social life and being able to act according to emotional state. Education is important for a healthy life and development of social, emotional, cognitive, motor and language skills. Family is the first institution where this education started. Family environment and parental attitudes greatly affect individuals' social adaptation and social skills. Within the scope of these informations, the aim of the study is to reveal whether the social adaptation and social skill levels of gifted individuals differ from the social adaptation and social skill levels of individuals with normal mental level and to evaluate the effect of parental attitudes on the social adaptation and social skill levels of children. Method: This research was applied based on the relational screening model. Sample selection was made according to the type of sample-random selection. The universe of the study consists of children between the ages of 6-10. The sample of the study consists of 90 children between the ages of 6-10. Sociodemographic Data Form, Social Adaptation and Skills Scale (SASS), Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children –IV (WISC-IV) were used as data collection tools in the study. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS package program. Results: In this study, it was found that there was a positive relationship between attention-mobility, need for approval sub-scales of SASS and overcontrol sub-dimension of PARI. A positive correlation was found between attention and mobility sub-scale of SASS and strict discipline and excessive control sub-dimensions of PARI. Social Adaptation and Skills Scale, emotional state, introversion, frustration threshold and impulsivity sub-scales of SASS and democratic attitude and equality recognition subdimension of PARI were found to be negatively correlated. A positive correlation was found between the need for approval subdimension of SASS and strict discipline subdimension of PARI. It was found that there was a positive correlation between attention and mobility subdimension of SASS and excessive control, strict discipline, and rejection of housewifery sub-dimensions of PARI for both gifted children and the children who has normal mental. Conclusion: According to the results of the study, regardless of children's intelligence level, when parents have a democratic attitude, social adaptation and skill levels of their children increase. In this context, it is thought that training and working on parental attitudes in order to increase children's social adaptation and skills might be beneficial.