Preschool Children's Social/Emotional Skills: A Demographic Comparison

This study aimed to study the relationship between children’s socialemotional skills with their sex, age and mother job status in a sample of 712 children (358 girls, 367 boys) 4-6 aged selected from kindergartens and preschools of Tehran. The mothers completed the Persian version of Kindergarten Inventory of Social/Emotional Tendencies (Miller, Michie, & Miller, 1997, Dadsetan et al., 2010). The results of MANOVA and T-test revealed girls were higher in social skills, communication skills and daily living skills and lower in maladaptive/ hyperactivity behaviors than boys. The 5-6 years old children had higher scores in controlling maladaptive/hyperactive behaviors and daily living skills than 4-5 years old group. The children who had employed mothers were higher in communication skills than who had housewife mother. The implications about understanding children behaviors and educational programming were discussed.