The Impact Of Day Care Flashcards
What does Droege argue?
Children in high quality child care are less timid and fearful
What approximate percentage of mothers with infants under the age of one year work in the UK?
70%
Outline the NICHD longitudinal study of 1991.
Undertaken in America - over 1000 children from diverse backgrounds and from 10 locations studied. Parents and children regularly assessed. At 5 years the data suggested that the more day care,of any quality - the more likely the child was to be assessed as assertive, disobedient and aggressive. Those in full time child care found to be three times more likely to display behavioural problems than those looked after by their mothers.
What did Belsky (2007) find?
Found that the link between more day care and behavioural problems was still evident when children were assessed at the end of primary school.
What does EPPE stand for?
Effective Provision of Pre-School Education.
Outline the EPPE 2003 study.
Major European longitudinal study of children’s behaviour between 3 and 7 years.
Wide ranging information on 3000 children. Looked at: background, home environment and experience of childcare. Looked at local authority day nurseries, private nurseries and nursery schools. Also had group who had minimal or no childcare experience who were recruited once school started.
What were the results of the EPPE 2003 study?
Those who spent longer in childcare rated by teachers as more likely to be aggressive and disobedient. This was particularly noted in local authority nurseries and private day nurseries. If day care was of high quality, the duration of this behaviour was reduced. Therefore better quality care can reduce,but not eliminate, the negative impact of long periods in day care.
Outline Belsky and Rovine’s findings of their 1998 study.
Assessed attachment using SS on children who received more than 20 hours of day care each week before one year old. Found to be more likely to be insecurely attached.
Who has found positive impacts of day care?
Alison Clarke-Stewart (1994).
Studied 150 children and found that those in day care were consistently more advanced in social development than those who had stayed at home.
What is meant by social development?
The ability to seek and enjoy the company of others and to make personal relationships with them.
What did Field (1995) find?
The amount of time spent in day care positively correlated to the number of friends children had once they went to school.
What did Vernon-Feagans (1999) find?
Children who started day care before the age of six months were more sociable than those who started later.
What is meant by peer relations?
Forming relationships with those the same age.
In what ways might the quality of day care vary?
- The ratio of child to adult
- Staff turnover
- Physical provision
- Staff training
- Type of child catered for.
Outline Penelope Leach’s 1998 study.
Studied 1200 children and their families in Oxford and North London.
Mothers interviewed when babies were 3 months old and then again at 10, 18, 36 and 51 months. Results published in 2007 - young children looked after by their mothers did significantly better developmentally than those cared for in nurseries or by childminders or relatives. Babies in nurseries fared worst, then childminders or nannies.
What percentage turn over of staff did Leach discover in day care?
Between 30 - 40%
What did Egeland and Heister (1995) find? How could this be explained?
Day care appeared to have a negative impact for secure children but a positive impact on insecure children. We could explain this in terms of the fact that insecurely attached children needed compensatory care while separation from good care can be detrimental.
Outline the High/Scope Perry Pre-school Project of 1962-1967.
This project provided high-quality pre-school education to 3 a 4 year old African- American children living in poverty and assessed to be at a high risk of school failure. Those who took part in this project subsequently had lower delinquency rates in adolescence and were less likely to have criminal records as adults than a control fro up who had not been part of the project.
What were the aims of the 2003 EPPE project?
The project aimed to find out whether some types of pre-school experiences were more effective than others in promoting children’s development and to discover the characteristics of an effective pre-school setting .
Outline Harvey (1999).
Evaluated the health and development of more than 6000 young people and found that children of mothers who work outside the home suffered no permanent damage because of their mother’s absence.
Why is Harvey (1999) important?
Earlier studies on the same group of children had reached different conclusions. Harvey’s study suggests that problems faced by 3 or 4 year olds may have disappeared by 12 years of age.
What does NICHD stand for?
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
What does day care mean?
Temporary care not given by family members or someone known well to the child and usually outside the home.
How can the NICHD results be reinterpreted?
Friedman (2006) pointed out that results could be stated differently…. 83% of those children who spent 10-39 hours in day care did NOT show higher levels of aggression.
Mother’s sensitivity was a better indicator of reported behaviour.
Higher maternal education and family income predicted lower levels of aggression.
