Investigation of the relationship between children's perception of moral and social rules and their mothers' emotional intelligence levels

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the moral and social perception of preschool children and their mothers' emotional intelligence levels.In this context,the study was carried out with 180 children who are between 60-72 months of age attending primary school and nursery classes connected to the Ministry of Education located in Ergani district of Diyarbakır province and their mother in 2018-2019 academic year. In order to collect data in the study ,'Personal Information Form 'was used to get information about the mothers and children. Moral and Social Rule Perception was used in order to determine the children's moral and social rules perceptions and Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale is used in order to determine mothers'emotional intelligence levels. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS packet programme. The data from the scales is analyzed by the SPSS program. Based on the number of categories of independant variables, T-test and One-way Variance Analysis (ANOVA) were analyzed for independant samples, and Tukey HSD test was used for meaningful differences. The relations between the variables were analysed with Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. According to the research result, the moral sense of authority and moral generalization of the child makes a meaningful difference to the mothers' emotional intelligence, which has been statistically weak and positive related. It has been identified that there is no meaningful relationship between the child's perception of social rules and the mother's subdimensions of emotional intelligence.