The ability of preschool children to distinguish among use right and ownership right

Subject Areas : Educational Science

Saeed Mahmoodpour ¹ , Hadi Bahrami ² , Noorali Farrokhi ³ , Fariborz Dortaj ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Prof, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Prof, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Prof, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-04-12 Accepted : 2019-06-08 Published : 2018-12-22

Keywords: Preschool Children, use right, ownership right,

Abstract :

This research was aimed to investigate the ability of preschool children to distinguish among gifts, shopping and borrow. Present research was applied from type of quantitative. Research statistical population was preschool children of Pakdasht Township in 2017-18 academic years. The research sample consisted of 25 people (10 girls and 15 boys) who were selected by random cluster sampling method. To collect data was used from structured interview about the concepts of gifts (take with you right of object), shopping (ownership right of object) and borrow (use right of object). The face and content validity of interview questions was confirmed by the experts and its reliability was reported desirable by method of examiners. To analyzed data used from one-sample T-test and SPSS-19 software. The results showed that preschool children understand that in borrow only have the use right of object, but don’t have ownership right and taken with you right of object. Also, in shopping and gifts have the use right, ownership right and taken with you right of object. In addition, ownership right and taken with you right in gifts and shopping significantly was higher than borrow and there was no significant difference between the rate of them in gifts and shopping. There was no significant difference between the use right in gifts, shopping and borrow (P>0/05). According to the results, it is recommended that to preschool children be trained distinguish among use right, ownership right and taken with you right based on the concepts of gifts, shopping and borrow.