Analyzing Perspective Taking Skills of 5- to 6-Year-Old Preschool Children in Relation to Their Self-Perception and Gender

• Published in: Journal of research in childhood education Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 427 - 439
• Main Authors: Ogelman, Hulya Gulay, Secer, Zarife, Onder, Alev
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Olney Routledge 01-10-2013; Association for Childhood Education International; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: 5- to 6-year-old children; Ability tests; Child Development; Childhood self perception; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Correlation analysis; Early childhood education; Foreign Countries; Gender; Gender Differences; Methods; Perspective Taking; Preschool Children; Regression (Statistics); Regression analysis; Self Concept; Self Concept Measures; Self image; self-perception; Self-perception in children; Sex (Biology); Skill Analysis; Student Surveys; Study and teaching; Turkey; Variance analysis; Turkey
• ISSN: 0256-8543; 2150-2641
• DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2013.822951

The purpose of this study is to analyze the ability of preschool children to take on a perspective, based on their self-perception and gender. A relational survey method was used, with 124 children between ages 5 and 6 participating-74 girls (59.7%) and 50 boys (40.3%). The Self-Perception Scale for Children and Perspective-Taking Test was conducted on the children individually by the researchers. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, two-way ANOVA, and simple linear regression analysis were used for data analysis. The results for the study indicate a significant relationship between the skill of perspective taking and self-perception. In addition, the score mean for the skill level of perspective taking changed according to self-concept. Children with a high level of self-perception had a higher skill level of perspective taking in comparison to children with a low level of self-perception.