International J. Soc. Sci. & Education 2014 Vol.4 Issue 2, ISSN: 2223-4934 E and 2227-393X Print 354 Analysis of Some Factors Related to Pre-School Term Teachers Affecting the Status of Liking Children By Aygen Çakmak, Fatma Elibol, Yurdagül Erdem Child Development Department, Health Sciences Faculty, Kırıkkale University, Turkey Abstract Within this study, it is aimed to analyze the levels of preschool term teachers in liking children and determine whether some factors such as the ones that are socio-demographic and related to work life have an impact on the point averages of liking children. Subjects of this study were 109 preschool term teachers from nursery schools in Kırıkkale either belonging to the primary schools inside the center of the city or independent from any other school. Within this study, a “Questionnaire Paper” was used in order to obtain the information about teachers and “Barnett Liking of Children Scale” developed by Barnett and Sinisi (1990) whose reliability and validity studies had been conducted by Duyan and Gelbal (2008) was used in order to determine the levels of liking children. The data obtained through this study was evaluated with “t-test” and “Variance Analysis”. It was determined in this study that the majors of these teachers have a significant effect on the point averages in liking children in terms of statistics (p<05) while some other conditions such as age, seniority within the profession, the alma mater, marital status, having children or not and the institution they work in do not have any significant effect on levels of liking children (p>.05). Keywords: Preschool, liking children, preschool teacher. 1. Introduction Preschool period has a vital importance for the development of a child. Within this period, children need for some physical, psychomotor, cognitive, lingual, social and sensual support and development (Atay, 2009). A sufficient support for the development of children highly depends on a range of factors such as an effective and efficient education process, a fruitful program for preschool education and a well- equipped physical environment. And another significant factor for an efficient and fruitful preschool education is the preschool teacher (Saltalı and Erbay 2013). The profession of teaching, however it is gained through education, is an important profession that requires devotion. It is also known that, the teachers for the preschool period should be more devoted due to the fact that the development process of a child has its highest speed and the environmental factors have their highest effect within this period. Due to this fact, it comes out as a requirement that a preschool teacher have more abilities and this critical period be overcome healthfully (Gürkan, 2005). A teacher should use the current conditions efficiently, study continuously in order to achieve the perfect, be flexible using his/her creativity, be eager for cooperation, sharing and creative in order to meet the changing demands of the society and institutions (Yetim and Göktaş 2004). A teacher who is successful and liked by everyone is suggested to be patient, kind, tolerant, self-confident and to love every human beings, the environment and the life and especially children (Aydın, 2004; Çelikten et al., 2005; Gürkan, 2005). Downing, Ryndak and Clark (2000) made a list of features required to be an educator including liking children, having the ability to interact with them, being patient, kind and flexible and keeping calm