Karimzadeh M, Moazzami Godarzi R, Shahshahanipour S, Biglerian A. (2024). Determining the relationship between the safety and ergonomic features of the care environment and the behavioral problems of 4-6 year old children in pre-primary centers in Tehran..
Early Childhood Health And Education.
5(1), : 5
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1- Associate Professor, Preschool Department, University of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Health, Tehran, Iran
2- Master's student of educational sciences, pre-primary school, University of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Health, Tehran, Iran
3- Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Health, Tehran, Iran
4- Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Health, Tehran, Iran
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Background and Aim: The different environments that the child deals with each have some kind of effect on how the child behaves. One of these environments is the kindergarten or school environment of children who spend a significant amount of their waking hours in this place. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical research of the correlation type. The statistical population is pre-primary centers in Tehran. The method of estimating the sample size is by considering the power of the first type error test and the alpha level of 0.5 based on Cohen's method and the cluster sampling method of 8 centers. Girls' and boys' pre-primary schools were selected from 4 parts of Tehran, North, South, East, and West, respectively, Region 1, Region 16, Region 9, and Region 4, then the required data were collected from these centers. Questionnaire and interview methods were used in this research. The data collection tool in this research was a questionnaire including Achenbach's Child Behavior List (1991) and a checklist of the quality assessment scale of early childhood education centers (3 to 6 years), ECERS-3 version (observation with interview). Data analysis was done using SPSS23 software. Results: The findings showed that based on the correlation coefficient between the characteristics of the care environment and children's behavioral problems, there is a relationship of -0.934, which indicates a strong and negative relationship. Also, according to the probability value obtained (<0.001), it can be He said that there is a significant relationship between the characteristics of the care environment and behavioral problems. Based on the results of multiple regression, there is a significant relationship between the component of learning activities and behavioral problems in such a way that by increasing one unit to the learning score, the average score of behavioral problems decreases by 0.40. Also, the results of Pearson correlation matrix analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between all dimensions of behavioral problems except law breaking with care features (safety and ergonomics). Also, based on the significance level obtained, there is a significant relationship between children's behavioral problems in girls and boys. Conclusion: According to the findings of the present research, it can be said that in order to reduce children's behavioral problems, more attention should be paid to the characteristics of their care environment because children are very sensitive mentally.
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Special Received: 2024/03/25 | Accepted: 2024/04/14 | Published: 2024/05/24