Social skills and behavior problems of iranian preschoolers

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Beheshteh Abdi ¹ (M. A. in Psychology Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture and Research Teacher Training Branch)

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2008-06-21

Keywords: gender, social skills, preschoolers, internalizing problems, externalizing problems,

Abstract :

Parents (n = 1001) and teachers (n = 284) of 518 girls and 483 boys (aged 3-5 years old), answered the Social Skills Rating System–Parent and Teacher forms (Gresham & Eliot, 1990), which aimed to measure their children's social skills, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems based on gender differences. The results of a MANOVA showed that, according to parents and teachers, girls scored higher than boys on the social skills (cooperation, responsibility and self control) and internalizing problems (sadness, depression and loneliness) subscales. Boys scored higher than girls on the externalizing problems (aggression, poor control of temper, argueing) subscale. Parents' ratings did not show a significant difference between girls and boys' measurements of assertiveness.