Empathy is a social-emotional skill that can be learned and taught, and a significant dimension of emotional intelligence. Being necessary in establishing and progressing healthy social relationships, it begins to develop from a very early age in family and school. People with high empathy also have more positive emotions and affectivity. On the contrary, people with low levels of empathy experience negative emotions more intensely. It was aimed to carry out this research since there were limited studies about the effects of parents and teachers on the development of empathy in five-year-old children and the effects of empathy levels on children's affectivity. The research is in quantitative design and relational screening model. The data consisted of 318 (151 girls and 167 boys) children aged five years (53-67 months, average 58.8 months) attending preschool education institutions in districts of Istanbul between November 2019 and October 2021. Data were collected from those children, their mothers and fathers, 30 preschool teachers who were all women. The Empathy Level Assessment Scale and the child empathy measurement tool developed by the researcher with the 10-day child affectivity checklist were used to collect the data. Linear and multiple regression, and mediation (path) analyses were used for data analysis. No significant difference was found between children’s genders in terms of empathy and affectivity levels. The relationship between children's empathy and positive affectivity levels is the strongest. In the ranking of the effects on children's empathy levels, mothers are in the first place. Preschool teachers have the highest level of empathy, and fathers have the lowest. It is mothers who increase their children's positive emotions in the preschool education environment at the highest level, while teachers are the only ones who significantly decrease children’s negative emotions. None of the mother, father and teacher empathy levels played a mediating role between the children's empathy levels and their affectivity. As a result, the primary factor in the increase of children's empathy and positive affectivity levels was mothers, fathers' empathy levels remained low, and preschool teachers' empathy levels were significantly effective on children's positive and negative affectivity in preschool environment. For this reason, school-family cooperation should be increased, including viii empathy education, and effective participation of the family should be ensured. Fathers should be encouraged to be more involved in their child's care and education.Empathy is a social-emotional skill that can be learned and taught, and a significant dimension of emotional intelligence. Being necessary in establishing and progressing healthy social relationships, it begins to develop from a very early age in family and school. People with high empathy also have more positive emotions and affectivity. On the contrary, people with low levels of empathy experience negative emotions more intensely. It was aimed to carry out this research since there were limited studies about the effects of parents and teachers on the development of empathy in five-year-old children and the effects of empathy levels on children's affectivity. The research is in quantitative design and relational screening model. The data consisted of 318 (151 girls and 167 boys) children aged five years (53-67 months, average 58.8 months) attending preschool education institutions in districts of Istanbul between November 2019 and October 2021. Data were collected from those children, their mothers and fathers, 30 preschool teachers who were all women. The Empathy Level Assessment Scale and the child empathy measurement tool developed by the researcher with the 10-day child affectivity checklist were used to collect the data. Linear and multiple regression, and mediation (path) analyses were used for data analysis. No significant difference was found between children’s genders in terms of empathy and affectivity levels. The relationship between children's empathy and positive affectivity levels is the strongest. In the ranking of the effects on children's empathy levels, mothers are in the first place. Preschool teachers have the highest level of empathy, and fathers have the lowest. It is mothers who increase their children's positive emotions in the preschool education environment at the highest level, while teachers are the only ones who significantly decrease children’s negative emotions. None of the mother, father and teacher empathy levels played a mediating role between the children's empathy levels and their affectivity. As a result, the primary factor in the increase of children's empathy and positive affectivity levels was mothers, fathers' empathy levels remained low, and preschool teachers' empathy levels were significantly effective on children's positive and negative affectivity in preschool environment. For this reason, school-family cooperation should be increased, including viii empathy education, and effective participation of the family should be ensured. Fathers should be encouraged to be more involved in their child's care and education.
Title
Beş Yaşındaki Çocukların, Ebeveynlerinin ve Öğretmenlerinin Empati Düzeyleri Ile Çocukların Duygulanımları Arasındaki Ilişkiler
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Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
Turkish
ProQuest document ID
2787194303
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