The role of emotional socialization behaviors of 4-5 years children on mother-child relations and children's social skills

In this study, it is aimed to examine the role of mothers' emotional socialization behaviors on mother-child relationship and children's social skills. At the same time, it is aimed to examine the differentiation status of mothers' emotional socialization behaviors, mother-child relationship and children's social skills according to demographic variables (children's gender, age, number of siblings, object attachment status and mothers' age, educational status, frequency of following publications and trainings on child psychology). Relational survey method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in this research. Within the scope of the research, data were collected from the mothers of 4-5 year old children. In the data collection process, "Personal Information Form" to determine the demographic information of mothers and children, "Scale for Coping with Negative Emotions of Children" to determine the emotional socialization behaviors of mothers, "Social Skills Development System-Rating Scale Preschool Version" to determine the social skills of children. "Child-Parent Relationship Scale-Mother Form" was used to determine the relationship between mother and child. Independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA analysis, pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were performed using the SPSS.26 package program to analyze the obtained data. According to the results of the research, some emotional socialization behaviors of the mothers differ according to the age of the children, the age of the mother, the education level of the mother, the number of siblings, the attachment to the object and the frequency of the mothers following the sources related to child psychology. Children's social skills sub-dimensions differ according to children's gender, age, mother's age, and mother's education level. In the regression analysis, it was seen that the emotional socialization behaviors of the mothers predicted the mother-child relationship and the social skills of the children. The findings were discussed by considering the studies in the literature. Based on the results obtained, suggestions for future studies, for parents and for psychological counselors are presented.