A Study on Problem Solving Skills of the Children from Broken Family and Full Parents Family Attending Regional Primary Boarding School

This research aims to examine the problem solving skills of children from broken family and full parents family in regional primary boarding school. This research was made up on 100 children in the 6th, 7th and 8th grade from broken family and full parents family in three regional primary boarding school in Giresun-Turkey. At the research, personal information form and Problem-Solving Skills Scale developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) were used as means of data collection. At the end of the research, the problem solving skills have not significant differences at children from broken family and full parents family; boarding attending situations of the children have negatively influence on problem solving skills from broken family and full parents family. Education level of parents and number of siblings have signifant differences at problem solving skills children who have full parents family, but they have not significant differences at problem solving skills children who have broken family.