Investigation of the Relationship between Parental Attitudes and Children's Receptive and Expressive Language Skills

Abstract

The purpose of the current study is to determine the relationship between parental attitudes and children's receptive and expressive language skills. In the current study investigating the relationship between parental attitudes and children's expressive and receptive language skills, the relational survey model; one of the survey models, was employed. The universe of the study is comprised of 5-6 years old children attending preschool education institutions in the city of Kars and their parents. The sampling of the study consists of 165 children selected by means of the convenience sampling method and their parents. According to the findings of the current study, there is no significant relationship between the children's gender and their language development. There is a significant relationship between the children's perceptive and expressive language skills and their age and the number of siblings. There is no significant relationship between parents' attitudes and both the gender of the child and the gender of parents. Yet, the relationship between the number of children and parents' attitudes is significant. A significant relationship was found between democratic and authoritarian parental attitudes and children's language development.

Parental Reports of Preschoolers' Lexical and Syntactic Development: Validation of the CDI-III for European Portuguese

“…Evidence of validity based on test-criterion relationships was collected by analyzing the effects of the child's gender, maternal education, and birth order on the CDI-III-PT scores. No gender differences were found in any of the two subscales, supporting the findings of other studies that suggest that boys catch up to girls' language abilities in preschool years (Altinkaynak, 2019;Fung et al, 2019;Jin et al, 2020;van der Wilt et al, 2020). Significant effects were found for maternal education in both subscales, a result which is also congruent with the findings of previous research in early development (Umek et al, 2006;Weigel et al, 2006;Fenson et al, 2007;Richels et al, 2013;Andonova, 2015;Gonzalez et al, 2017;Cadime et al, 2018;Farley and Piasta, 2020).…”

“…However, some studies with toddlers suggest that, as they approach 3;0, there is a tendency for boys to catch up in terms of expressive language (Simonsen et al, 2014). The results of other studies with preschool children, with ages ranging approximately between 3;0 and 6;0, seem to confirm that this gender gap decreases as children grow older: some studies with preschoolers show only small differences favoring girls (Jin et al, 2020;van der Wilt et al, 2020), and others do not show any differences (Altinkaynak, 2019;Fung et al, 2019).…”

Ebeveyn Tutumlari İle Okul Öncesi̇ Dönemdeki̇ Çocuklarin Karar Verme Beceri̇leri̇ Arasindaki̇ İli̇şki̇ni̇n İncelenmesi̇

“…Buna göre, kültürel farklılıkların ve toplumsal cinsiyet algısının (Huang, Cheah, Lamb ve Zhou 2017;Wang ve Leichtman, 2000) anne babaların çocuklarının cinsiyetine göre demokratik tutum sergileme biçimlerini değiştirebileceği düşünülebilir. Bu çalışmaya benzer şekilde Koumoundourou, Tsaousis ve Kounenou (2011) öncesi çocuklarının cinsiyetine göre farklılaşmadığı sonucuna ulaşılan çalışmalar da bulunmaktadır (Arabacıoğlu, 2019;Özen Altınkaynak, 2019;Özyürek, Aydın, Şirin, Turan ve İrken, 2020). Bu çalışmada çocukların cinsiyeti ile ebeveyn görüşlerine göre çocukların karar verme becerileri arasında anlamlı bir farklılık olmadığı belirlenmiştir.…”

“…Öğretir Özçelik ve Arslan (2020), Ceylan (2017) ve Aydoğdu ve Dilekmen (2016) yapmış oldukları çalışmalarda anne-babaların koruyucu tutumlarının çocuk sayısı ile ilişkili olduğu sonucuna ulaşmıştır. Çocuk sayısına göre ebeveynlerin demokratik (Arabacıoğlu, 2019;Özen Altınkaynak, 2019;Uygun, 2018) ve otoriter tutumlarının (Aktürk, 2015;Alabay, 2017;Özyürek ve Tezel Şahin, 2005) farklılaştığı sonucuna ulaşılan çalışmalar da bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada ailedeki çocuk sayısına göre çocukların karar verme becerilerinin farklılaşmadığı belirlenmiştir.…”