Introduction. Emotinal Regulation Checklist is frequently used to determine emotional developments of children by teacher and parents of children. The purpose of this study was to examining the Psychomectric Properties of Emotinal Regulation Check List for 4-5 years age in preshool children. Method. The sample of the research was composed of 600 preschool children, who are all 4-5 years old, from 13 different public schools in Eskişehir (Turkey). This study is a quantitative and relational study. The data were collected by Emotinal Regulation Check List and PreSchool Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Inventory-Teacher Form. Results. The factor structure of the scale was tested through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the results indicate that the original factor model did not fit the data. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) results differed from the original study in that item twelve took place in the first factor. CFA results revealed an acceptable model fit and suggested that two factor model was confirmed with the second dataset. Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficients were acceptable for subscales. Positive and negative medium level meaningful relations were found between emotion regulation checklist sub-factors and social compotence and behavior the sub-factors. Discussion and Conclusion. As a result of, it can be concluded that scale is a reliable and valid measurement tool for measure the emotion regulation behaviors of 4-5-year-old children. The findings of this study indicate the need to Education programmes developed to increase emotinal regulation of children, and their efficiency evaluated via this assessment instruments.

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Introduction. Emotinal Regulation Checklist is frequently used to determine emotional de-

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether liking child of preschool teacher candidates predicts motivations for teaching professions and whether students' liking child, motivations for teaching professions differ based on qualifications of personnel was investigated. 396 preschool teacher candidates participant attending in two different university. The Barnett Liking Child Scale and Motivation Source and Problems Candidate Teacher Occupation Questionnaire are used as data collecting tool. In this study, independent t-test, one way variance analysis, Pearson Correlation analysis and, basic linear regression analysis were used for analyzing data. In the study, it was determined that liking child and motivations for teaching professions is high of teacher candidates, except negative factors for learning motivation, There is a significant difference between the liking child, motivations for teaching professions of students and their gender, academic achievement, and income level of family. Also, liking child of students significantly predicted motivations for teaching professions.

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