STUDY OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL BEHAVIORS OF 60-72 MONTHS CHILDREN WHO TAKE AND DO NOT TAKE CREATIVE DRAMA EDUCATION WITH RESPECT TO SOME VARIABLES

This study aims to examine the social-emotional behaviors of 60-72 months children by comparing those who take and those who do not take creative drama education in relation to their gender, birth order, number of siblings, their mother’s age and education level. The sample was composed of 90 children, 45 of whom were in the experimental group and 45 were in the control group. A “Personal Information Form” was used to collect information about the children and their families, the “Vineland Social-Emotional Early Childhood Scale” developed by Sparrow et al. (1998) and adapted to Turkish by Ceylan and Omeroglu (2008) was used to measure the children’s social-emotional behaviors. The children in the experimental group were provided with creative drama education addressing social-emotional behaviors twice a week in 45 minute periods each over a period of 12 weeks. In the analysis of the data, two way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test was used. No significant difference was found in the socialemotional behaviors in children who participated in the creative drama education and those who did not with respect to gender, birth order, number of siblings, mother’s education. But there was a significant difference with regard to mothers’ age.