Okul Öncesi Dönemdeki Çocukların Oyunlarında Ortaya Çıkan Zorbalık ve Mağdur Olma Davranışlarının İçerik Analizi

Abstract

This qualitative study was conducted to explore kindergarten children's bullying and victimization behaviors in play. Data were collected through The Early Childhood Play and Bullying Behavior Observation Form developed by the researcher. The study group consisted of 55 children attending a university's kindergarten who were allowed to participate in the study. It was found out that a part of the children did not show aggressive behaviors in play. 30 of 55 children were observed to demonstrate at leat two physical aggressive behaviors while 32 of 55 childrenwere found to display at least two relational aggressive behaviors. As children showed at least two aggressive behaviors ongoingly, their behaviors were called as bullying. Bullying and play behaviors of children were separated into two different groups each of which earned high scores in terms of physical and relational aggressive behaviors. Results of the study indicated that children with high relational bullying scores bullied more physically and relationally and children with high physical bullying scores were bullied more physically. It was observed that children displayed physical bullying and victimization behaviors such as grabbing or taking away an object and pushing a friend. It was also found out that children showed relational bullying behaviors like threatening and excluding a child from a group or an activity and relational victimization behaviors like ignoring a friend and excluding a child from a group or an activity.