4-6 YAŞ ARASI ÇOCUĞU OLAN EBEVEYN TUTUMLARININ VE İSTİSMAR FARKINDALIKLARININ BELİRLENMESİ ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA

This study aims to determine the abuse awareness status of the families of 4-6 age group preschool children in Kirikkale province. The method of the study is cross-sectional screening from screening studies. The parental abuse awareness scale developed by Pekdogan (2017) was used as a data collection tool. The universe of the study is the kindergartens that provide education between the ages of 4-6 in Kirikkale province. The sample was easily identified as a sampling method and 124 parents who agreed to complete the questionnaire were interviewed. The data of the study were analyzed with SPSS 23 program and the relationship between the sociodemographic characteristics of the parents and the awareness of parental abuse was examined. In the analysis of the research, t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used for independent groups. As a result of the research, it was seen that parents' attitudes were more authoritative and their awareness of abuse was moderate. Considering the sociodemographic characteristics of the parents, there was no significant difference between the gender, number, maternal age, and father age of the children and parental attitudes (p> 0.05). On the other hand, a significant difference was found between the education level of the mother, the education level of the father, income levels, and parental attitudes (p 0.05); A significant difference was found between the number of children, maternal age, educational status of mothers and fathers and awareness of abuse (p <0.05). When looking at the relationship between abuse awareness scale and parental attitudes, there was a moderate negative relationship between abuse awareness and authoritarian subscale.