fa تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background:</strong> Children&rsquo;s inability to protect themselves, shows the importance of crisis management in preschool period. Preschool administrators can help them with the risk prevention during crisis. We aimed to investigate the professional competencies of preschool administrators based on crisis management approach.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> The study participants included 387 preschool administrators in Tehran, Iran, selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The surveying tool was a questionnaire designed based on the Child Care Director Self-Assessment instrument (North Carolina Institute, 2015), which has 76 items covering 11 different competency areas. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS (Version 21) by performing descriptive tests and inferential statistics like the Kruskal-Wallis test and the stepwise linear regression method.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> The results showed a significant difference between professional competency of preschool administrators in terms of age, management experience and educational level (P<0.001). Also, regression results revealed that management experience and educational level can predict professional competency for crisis management, but age could not predict the variation in professional competency (P>0.05).<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Administrators who are more professionally competent in terms of technical, human, and perceptual skills are more qualified for the preschool management, but age variables can not predict eligibility.</div> ن Professional Competence, Educational measurement, Preschool, Crisis management 185 190 http://hdq.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-189-10&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Shahin Amani شهین امانی shahinamani1370@gmail.com 0000-0003-0121-0459 No Department of Preschool Education, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Siamak Tahmasbi سیامک طهماسبی karchany@yahoo.com 0000-0001-5554-1531 No Department of Preschool Education, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Alireza Baneshi علیرضا بانشی karchanym@gmail.com 0000-0002-0435-5808 No Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Education, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran. Mohsen Poursadeghiyan محسن پورصادقیان mo.poursadeghiyan@uswr.ac.ir 0000-0003-3606-7613 No Health in Emergency and Disaster Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mansoureh Karimzadeh منصوره کریم زاده mkarimz2000@gmail.com 0000-0002-3693-429X Yes Department of Preschool Education, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.