The purpose of this study is for the emotional skills of six-year-old children attending nursery school according to some variables. The participants were 306 (135 girls and 171 boys) six-year-old children attending nursery school. Data were collected from Assessment of Children's Emotional Skills and personal information form. In order to analyze data, t test, one way variance analysis and tukey test were employed. The findings of the study revealed that emotional skills of six-year-old children attending nursery school significantly varied according to the variables of gender, educational level of mother and father, the status of receiving previous pre-school education and number of children in the family. (Contains 4 tables.)