Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between maternal child rearing attitude and behavioral problems in early childhood.
 Method: The study is a descriptive research type. The sample of the study consisted of 756 mothers with children enrolled in preschool education in public schools within the borders of city center in the 2022-2023 academic year. The data were collected with the Personal Information Form, Preschool Behavioral Problems Screening Scale (PBPSS) and Child Raising Attitude Scale (CRAS). The data were transferred to the SPSS 22.0 program and evaluated using descriptive statistical analyses and Pearson Correlation Analysis.
 Results: 66.7% of the mothers and 45.6% of the fathers were between the ages of 26-35, 54.4% of the mothers and 55.6% of the fathers had undergraduate/graduate education. The mean age (months) of the children was 63.70 (5.59). The mean total score of the PBPSS was 11.63 (5.78). The scores of the mothers on the democratic, authoritarian, protective, and overly tolerant sub-dimensions of the CRAS were 10.51 (2.71); 20.01 (2.15); 21.51 (2.73); and 19.63 (2.44), respectively. In this study, it was determined that mothers with democratic parental attitudes decreased behavioral problems in children, while mothers with authoritarian, protective and overly tolerant attitudes increased behavioral problems in children (p

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