The research of relationship between mothers and their children who continue their nursery class education

Secure attachment relationship between mother and infant is an important start that makes the mother-child relationship healthier over the course of the ensuing years. Mothers play a large role in the development of their children’s social relationships. A healthy mother- child communication helps children develop a healthy personality and have healthy relationship with others. The purpose of this research is to analyse the relationship between mothers and their (5-6-year-old) children who continue their nursery class education. This research has been carried out by using relational screening model. The mothers whose children continue their nursery class education at the private and public schools in the Anatolian side of Istanbul, have formed the target population. For that purpose with the cluster sample method; Kad k y, Ata ehir and Maltepe provinces located in the Anatolian side and the mothers from these provinces whose children continue their education in the nursery class, have formed the sample of this research. A version of “ Child-Parent Relationship Scale ” developed by Robert C. Pianta (1992), adapted into Turkish by Sayg and a personal information form developed by the researchers for the mothers’ descriptive information, have been used as data collection tool in this research. Mothers’ relations with their children have been analyzed in terms of the scale’s sub-dimensions of affiliation and conflict acording to the mother’s age, educational and employment status. Significant differences (p<05) have been observed.