The Examination of Relationship Between Behavioral Regulation with Phonological Awareness, Matching Images and Pre-Writing Skills in Preschool Children

Behavior regulation skills are associated with early academic skills in pre-school children in the studies. In addition to this, limited number of studies has been shown relations between behavioral regulation skills and early literacy skills; phonological awareness, matching images and pre-writing skills. The study aims at assessing the relation between phonological awareness, matching images and pre-writing skills which are early literacy skills and behavior regulation skills in preschool children with regard to age, gender, period of attending school, number of siblings.144 pre-school children, 68 of whom are girls and 76 boys, participated from Bursa central districts in the research. Results show that behavior regulation skills are associated with phonological awareness and pre-writing skills. When age increases, phonological awareness scores and matching images scores increase; according to number of siblings, there is a statistically significant difference pre-writing skills scores; period of attending school does not affect phonological awareness scores, matching images scores and pre-writing skills; there is a statistically significant difference between pre-writing scores by gender; the difference shows that girls’ pre-writing scores are higher than the boys’ pre-writing scores