The Examination of Maternal Self-Efficacy and Anger Levels ofChildren Who Attending Preschool Education

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the self efficacy and anger levels of preschool aged children’s mothers. the sample of the research includes 135 mothers who are willing to participate in the study and whose children goes to pre-school education institutions located in european and asian sides of istanbul province. in order to gather data for the research demographic data form, berkeley parents self-efficacy scale, pre-school form developed by susan holloway (2005) and translated into turkish by zembat and friends (2008), and state-trait anger scale developed by spielberger (1988) and translated into turkish kadir özer (1994) are used. parenting self-efficacy and anger levels of parents participating in the research are examined in terms of gender of child and the family’s level of income. in addition, except the anger control sub dimension, between the self-efficacy levels and anger levels of the mothers’ have been found a negative relationship