Kiliçgün, Muge Yurtsever

During childhood, establishing a healthy bond of love between parents and children is the most important requirement. Feeling and expressing types of love vary in this period. 'This study aims to describe the typologies of 4 - 6 year old children's perception of their parents' love for them. The sample of the study consisted of 240 children. The data in this study were obtained from face to face interviews with children by using the mixed methods. Children were asked questions like How do you know that your mother/father loves you?. The content analysis of the data obtained from the interviews with children was made. Categories were established about the children's perception types for parental love. Percent and frequency values of descriptive data were calculated. Differences in gender and age of the children were analyzed with chi-square analysis. When the similarities and differences in children's expression were analyzed; six different categories were found in parental love perception types of children. These categories were physical contact with parents, parental approval words, spending quality time with parents, being given presents by parent, ensuring basic needs of child by parent and meeting parental expectations. In terms of the gender of the child and parent, significant differences among the types of parental love perception were found. This study drew attention to typologies of the perceptions of parental love generated by children. Considering that in the early years of childhood, healthy parent-child relationship is very much effective upon their relationship throughout the life of individuals; data obtained from research provide important contributions to the field. (C) 2016 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk

Kiliçgün, Muge Yurtsever; Kiliçkaya, Ayse

The basic purpose of this study was to examine whether there was a predictor effect of the types of authority in the relationship between mothers and their children on the levels of parental support their children's self-care skills or not. 419 mothers with 6 years old children took part in the sample of this study. Family Information Questionnaire, Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) and Parental Support Inventory for Self-Care Skills (PSISS) were used as data collection tools. It was identified that the types of parental authority are permissive, authoritarian and authoritative authorities in this study. The levels of mothers' support in children's self-care skills were regarded in the sub-dimensions which were cleanliness and property, nutrition, dressing, personal security, and rest. According to the results of this study, a significant relation was determined between the types of authority of mothers and the levels of mother's support on children's self-care skills. It was seen that there was a negative reasonable relationship between permissive and authoritative authority of mothers and the levels of theirs support on their children's self-care skills. It was also conferred that there was a positive reasonable relationship mothers between authoritarian authority and behavior and the levels of theirs support on their children's self-care skills. It was found that there was a predictor effect of points of authority mothers' who have 6 years old children to points support on their children's self-care skills. (c) 2014 The Authors. Published by Cognitive - crcs under responsibility of the Author(s).