The Predictive Role of Temperamental Traits and Inhibitory- Control Skills on Ego Resiliency of Preschool Children

Abstract

Ego resiliency means positive development tendency despite risk factors. Resilient children areexpected to cope with individual, familial and environmental risk factors, so developing resiliency could beaccepted as a developmental task for children. The aim of the study is to investigate the predictive role oftwo selected individual variables; inhibitory control skills and temperament characteristics of preschoolchildren, on their ego resiliency levels. The study is in survey method. The sample of the study includes 55-73 months old 78 children, who attend preschools. The data collection tools that are used in this study are;The Personal Information Form, The Short Temperament Scale for Children and Children’s Ego ResiliencyScale (Mother Form). Also two tasks, named as Green-Red Signs and Touch Your Toe were used to assesspreschoolers’ inhibitory control skills. When all the variables are considered together in the regressionanalysis, it has been found that the inhibitory control skills are significantly predictive of children's egoresiliency, but temperamental characteristics are not.