Self esteem, perceived social support and social skills i̇n roma children undergoing education in the elementry

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between self esteem, perceived social support (from family, frends and teachers) and social skills of Gypsy students attending elementry (3.-4.) and secondary (5-6-7-8.) school. In line wtih this purpose, whether self esteem can be predicted using perceived social support and social skills was researched. Whether self esteem can be predicted using perceived social support and social skills was reserched. Moreover, the relationship between the demographic variables at hand and self esteem, perceived social support and social skills were analyzed, and whether there was a difference between the leves of devolepment variables levels with regards to gender was researched. A total of 211 students consisting of 108 girls and 103 boys attending 3rd to 8th grades from Gypsy families fort he 2016-2017 academic year from Kuştepe neighborhood of Şişli distinct of İstanbul were involved in the research. The date collection tools used were the "Self Esteem Inventroy " developed by Coopersmith (1967), "Perceived Social Support Scale" developed by Yıldırım (1997), "Social Skills Scale" developed by Kocayörük (2000) and the "Personel Informatıon Form" used by the researcher ın connectıon with the research data. In accordance with the research data, it has been found the social support and social skills points that the Roma children perceive, predict the level of self esteem in a meaninful way. No difference was found between girls students and boy students in the level of self esteeem, perceived social support and social skills.