This study aims to compare the emotional indicators and depressive symptom levels of 6- to 12-year-old children with and without cancer. The sample included 20 children with cancer and 20 healthy children of similar ages and gender. Data were collected by using the Child Introduction Form, Children's Depression Inventory, the Human Figure Drawing test, and children's drawings. The results showed that the depressive symptom levels of children with cancer were significantly higher than those of healthy children. Impulsivity, mistrust, and anger were observed significantly more in children with cancer (P < .05). Although anxiety was equal in the two groups, shyness was observed more in the cancer group, though the difference was not significant (P > .05). The emotional indicators of both groups of children did not have an effect on their depression scores.

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In the research, it has been aimed to evaluate pre-school teachers' job satisfaction from the point of their children love and other variables. The participants of the research involve the teachers working pre-schools in tandem with the National Education Ministry in Çankırı. The population of the study has been organized as a random sampling survey consisting 364 teachers, who accepted to fill out the data collection instruments. The data have been collected via "General Information Form", "Minnesota Satisfaction Scale" and "Barnett Children Love Scale". For the data analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H tests, Spearman correlation parameters have been used. The analysis result has indicated that the teachers, who are satisfied with their salaries and would again choose their jobs, has high satisfaction points (p<.05) and as their children love increases, their satisfaction gets higher too (p<.01).

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This study aimed to compare the emotional status of children with cancer between the ages of five and twelve with their healthy peers. The study groups of the research consist of children with cancer disease between the ages of five and twelve which have inpatient treatment at pediatric oncology service and healthy peers of the same age and gender. Totally 70 children, with 35 cancer who took inpatient treatment and two or more chemotherapy treatments between the dates September-November 2017, and also whose families accepted to participate in the research and 35 healthy children who live at the centre of Ankara, and were chosen with easy sampling method were included to the research. When collecting the data, “General Information Form” was used to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of the children and their families and the pictures drawn by the children were used to determine the emotional situations of the children. Pictures were evaluated according to the expert opinions using Koppitz’s “Draw a Man” evaluation test. The Chi-Square test was used to evaluate the data. The coherence between the experts was determined by the Cronbach Alpha value which was found 0.83. According to findings of the research, it was concluded that the impulsiveness, self-insecurity, anxiety, and anger-aggressiveness (p>0.05); shyness-timidity (p<0.05) of children with cancer was significantly higher than their healthy peers.

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