EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN IN 6 AGES AND THEIR MOTHERS’ STYLE OF HUMOR
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
This study was carried out to examine relationship between emotional intelligence of 6 age group children in pre-school education and their mothers’ style of humor. The population of the study includes children for 60 months and older in pre-school education in official elementary school and independent pre-school in Çubuk, Ankara for 2014-2015 academic year, and their mothers. At least 89 subjects are determined with simple random sampling method from the population and, 206 children and their mothers are included in sample of the study. Sample of the study includes 206 kindergarten children of the primary schools, and children's mothers. “General Information Form for Children”, "Sullivan Children's Emotional Intelligence Scale" and “Humor Styles Questionnaire” were used as data collecting tools in there search. In this study, whether depression levels of the mothers surveyed and 4 subscales (faces, stories, understanding, managing) belong to their children's emotional intelligence level differ according to various demographic was examined by SPSS 20 software package with t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for independent samples according to category number of independent variables. The relationship between variables were examined with Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The significance level was 0.05 in the statistics. According to the results of the study, humor styles of mothers did create a statistically significant difference depending on family type (p<0,05). When the relation between the children’s emotional intelligence level and their mothers’ style of humor was examined, it was determined that there is a negative and meaningful relation between the face section of their emotional intelligence level and the extent of their mothers’ self-defeating style of humor (p<0,05).
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Gülümser Gültekin AKDUMAN, Dicle AKAYDIN
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