Comparison of nonverbal intelligence and social skills in preschool children of employees and non-employed mother in the city of Shiraz

Pages: 283-285
Fateme Tavakoli and Firooz Rezaeian (Department of Educational Sciences, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

The aim of this study was to compare the intelligence nonverbal social skills in preschool children of employed mother’s non-employee city of Shiraz. A total of 50 children with working mothers and 50 children with mothers of normal city using random sampling – a cluster of two or three public preschool were chosen Matson social skills (1983) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (1939) as a research tool was distributed between two groups of children. The results showed that children with employed mothers in social skills and non-verbal intelligence gained higher scores than children with non-employee mother.