The relationship between parents of 48-60 months of children, parental competency and feeding children

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between motherswith 48-72 months old children, and their relation with the parenting competence and the way they feed their children. The study group consists the mothers of 270 children who were educated in kindergartens and independent kindergartens of public and private primary schools of Efeler District of Aydın Province, aged 48-72 months. To obtain the data, the Parental Competence Scale for Mothers, Parental Nutrition Questionnaire and Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher were used. Normality tests for scale scores were performed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Since the marks has not normality distribution , comparisons were made with non-parametric tests. Mann-Whitney U test was used for two-group comparisons and the Kruskal-Wallis H test was used for comparisons with three or more groups. The relationship between the marks obtained from the sub-dimensions of the scale was examined with spearman Brown rank difference.According to the findings, ; In the comparison of nutritional scale distributions and education groups, it was found that encouraging nutrition and tolerant controlled feeding scores were significantly lower in the secondary and high school groups compared to the other groups (p> 0.05) "0.05" was determined as the level of significance, and if p <0.05, there was a significant difference, and if p> 0.05, there was no significant difference In the comparison of Competency Scale distributions and working status groups; leisure time management, school support, health, and total competence scores were found to be significantly higher in the non-working group (p <0.05). In the comparison of NutritionScale according to working status groups; strictly controlled nutrition marks were found to be significantly higher in the non-working group (p <0.05). In the comparison of Nutrition Scale distributions with gender groups; helper scores were found to be significantly higher in males (p <0.05). As a result of correlation analysis of Competence and Nutrition Scale; a statistically significant relationship was found between the sub-dimensions of both scales (p <0.05) KEY WORDS: Preschooler, Parental Self Efficiacy, Parental Feeding Vay