strengths + weaknesses of daycare

Question 1

examples of daycare

Answer 1

• NICHD
• EPPE
• Besky

Question 2

advantages of NICHD

Answer 2

• nursery type care led to improvements in cognitive and language development and increased behaviour problems e.g. aggression
• children who had higher quality care had more positive outcomes than those in low quality care
• being in day care is positive in terms if improving social behaviours up to age 3

Question 3

disadvantages of NICHD

Answer 3

• found no specific differences in benefits in daycare depending on the economic or social status of family
• a child who spent quite a while in group childcare, when nearing school age, was found to show behavioural problems e.g. agression

Question 4

advantages of EPPE

Answer 4

• child who starts EPPE has better intellectual influence
• sociability, independence, and concentration improved in high quality care
• by school age child would show less anxiety in terms of social behaviour
• disadvantaged children did well in daycare, especially if the setting had a mix of children from diff backgrounds

Question 5

disadvantages of Belsky and Pleuss 2011

Answer 5

• low quality daycare experiences predict later problems in child e.g. being impulsivity and delinquency
• difficult child shows this relationship between child care experiences and late behaviour

Question 6

advantages of Andersson

Answer 6

• child who attended daycare at young age were rated as more socially more advanced by sch teachers than those who attended day care later/homeschooled
• these children had more friends and were more outgoing because daycare offered them greater opportunity to develop social skills
  preformed better at school at ages 8 - 13 than homeschooled/late children

Question 7

disadvantages of Belsky and Rovine 1988

Answer 7

• there was a higher incidence of avoidant (type a) attachments - 43% among children under 12 months who experiences more than 20hrs a week on non-maternal care than children who experienced less than 20hrs a week
• boys whose mothers worked full time, so experienced full time day care (35 hours per week), had more insecure attachments with their fathers than other boys did