Sosyal Yeterlilik ve Alternatif Düşünme Stratejilerinin Desteklenmesi – ADSD Okulöncesi Programı
Articles > Article · 2012
Authors: Tugce B Arda Tuncdemir, Şakire KARABAY
Kuram ve Uygulamada Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi (Educational Sciences: Theory Practice), KUYEP, Journal Indexed in SSCI, International, 2012, vol 12, pp 2679-2698
Summary
<p>In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the effects of Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) - Preschool Curriculum on Preschool Children’s Social Skills. The six years old children (N= 95) and their teachers (N=7) were included in participant group in İzmir. With a pretest-intervention-posttest design, data was collected through Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies Preschool Evaluation Kit, Kusche Emotional Inventory, Head Start Competence Scale–Teacher Version, Teaching Style Rating Scale, Classroom Atmosphere Rating Scale. The evaluation findings indicated that (i) the training effects were large for increasing concentration and attention skills F(1,93)= 6.24*, p 05) and social emotional competence (F(1,93)= 11.69*, p 05; F(1,93)= 29.23**, p 001); (ii) reducing aggression and distruptive behaviors (F(1,93)= 7.06**, p 001); (iii) no significant intervention effects could be detected on any emotion knowledge skills (F(1,84)= 10.80). However, as compared to the control group, it was found that (iv) the intervention improved the level of children’s compliance, cooperation, problem solving, feeling expression (F(1,93)= 29.23**, p 001.), and (v) the level of teachers’ discipline strategies, emotional support, problem solving, and preventing misbehavior F(1,5)= 8.24*, p 05; F(1,5)= 30.42**, p 001; F(1,5)= 31.20**, p 001; F(1,5)= 35.07**, p 001). At the end of the study, it was found that PATHS-Preschool was an effective program in terms of improvement of children’s social emotional competence and to lay groundwork for a comprehensive evaluation of the program as a preventive intervention for Turkish children.</p> <p>Key Words: Social and Emotional Competence, Preschool Children, Preventive Intervention, Social Problem Solving.</p>