Background and Purpose: Development in first years of life is very important and different from later years and has major effect on future life. Three domains of early child development have been recognized in healthy life course: physical, social-emotional, and linguistic-cognitive. The purpose of this research was to determine social-emotional skills development of children aged 1-4 years in Tehran kindergartens.
Method: For this research survey-developmental research, 138 children aged 1-4 years (boy 70, girl 68) were randomly selected from six kindergartens of different areas in Tehran.
The development of social-emotional skills of these children based on interviews with mothers and teachers and observation of children was identified in the chart of development of social-emotional skills. Data was analyzed by using of descriptive statistical methods, Kolmogorov-Smirnov single-sample test and single-sample t-test.
Results: Results indicated that there was significant difference between social – emotional skills score of 1-2 years old children and the criterion scores but this difference is not significant in other groups.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, it can be said that the development of social-emotional skills of 1-2 year old children has been less attention and it seems that cultural-social-educational factors play an important role in this ignore.