VERBAL REACTIONS OF MOTHERS IN RESPONSE TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF OLDER PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

The article presents the results of a study of mothers’ verbal reactions in response to the independence of older preschool children using the developed questionnaire “Verbal Reactions of Mothers when Interacting with Children”. The questionnaire includes twenty questions describing life situations and their corresponding reaction phrases, which are uttered by adults in response to independent actions of children in various fields of activity. A psychological analysis of the data obtained was carried out. The authors present the results of the cluster analysis, which made it possible to describe the psychological features of the verbal reactions of mothers in the selected groups.