A Study on the Effect of the Social Skill Education on the Academic Self Respect and Problem Solving Skills of the Pre-School Children

The study was conducted to determine the effect of the Social Skills Education Program applied to the preschool children in the ages of 48 to 60 months on their academic self-respect and problem solving skills. The study had a single group with the pretest-posttest experimental model. The study group consisted of 16 preschool children in the ages of 48 to 60 months. Since there was no other group with equivalent qualities as the experiment group, the study was planned in a single group experimental model. “Personal Information Form, Interpersonal Problem Solving Scale and Academic Self Respect Scale were used as the data collection tools. In the study, Social Skill Education Program was applied to the children for two days a week during 14 weeks. The problem solving and academic self-respect levels of children were measured before and after the program. As a result of the analyses, a significant difference (p<0.05) was determined in favor of posttest between the scores of children before and after the Social Skill Education Program. Upon the permanence test, it was concluded that the Social Skill Education Program was permanent.