The Effect of Corona-Virus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak Quarantine on the Belief and Behavior of Children in Early Childhood with a Fuzzy Conjoint Method

Year 2023, , 43 - 55, 28.03.2023

Murat Kirisci , Musa Bardak , Nihat Topaç

https://doi.org/10.36753/mathenot.1056913

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to measure the effect of Coronavirus quarantine on the cognition and behavior of children in the early childhood period using the Fuzzy Set Theory. In this study, after the Coronavirus quarantine, the thoughts of the children and their parents' observations and thoughts about the cognition and behavior of their children were questioned. This investigation was used to measure the change in children's cognition and behavior of the Coronavirus quarantine, both in questions asked to children and in questions asked to parents. The fuzzy Conjoint Method was used to analyze the data obtained. The measurements of the effect of the Corona-virus quarantine have been recorded in the form of degrees of similarity and its level of agreement.

Keywords

COVID-19, infectious disease, fuzzy conjoint model, early childhood

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