Abstract

The preschool period poses a significant period of individuals, because a child experiences a rapid rate of development regarding her/his physical, dynamic, cognitive, verbal and psychological-social skills. The present research aims to anticipate preschoolers’ self-control according to their mothers’ self-determination. In doing so, 150 male preschoolers were selected by convenience sampling method. The participating parents have been asked to complete the questionnaire and the basic needs satisfaction in general scale (BNSG-S), self-control rating scale to collect the data. The descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation), correlation coefficient and multiple-regression have been applied to analyze the data. The results indicate that the self-control of preschoolers might be anticipated by their mothers' self-determination methods.