Selected childrearing beliefs and practices of parents and caregivers in family day care [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3287303
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Rains, Barbara Janet Deturck
- Description:
- 180 p.
- Summary:
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The purposes of this study are to examine the reported childrearing beliefs and practices of family day home caregivers, to examine the reported childrearing beliefs and practices of parents whose children are in a family day home, and to determine the congruency of the reported childrearing beliefs and practices between caregivers and parents. The childrearing beliefs and practices selected for the study are in the areas of discipline, sleeping, feeding-eating, toilet training, sex-role development, and selected home activities. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher. Through the assistance of a panel of experts and through a pilot study, the questionnaire was revised and refined. The sample for the study was seventy-five family day home caregivers, serving children from birth to five years of age, and seventy-five parents, having children from birth to five years of age, who were utilizing family day homes in a Texas Department of Human Resources Region.
The federal and state confidentiality laws protecting the family day home caregivers and parents made it necessary to work with the five family day home agencies sponsoring the family day homes in a Texas Department of Human Resources Region. The questionnaires were mailed to the sample in the third week of January, 1980, with follow-up letters mailed in the third week of February, 1980. Responses were received from 74 per cent of the sample, fifty-seven caregivers and fifty-four parents. Frequencies and percentages were analyzed to report the childrearing beliefs and practices of caregivers and parents as separate groups. Chi-square analyses yielded significant differences between the frequencies of responses of caregiver and parent groups to thirty-two of the 161 items included on the questionnaire.
The responses of forty-two matched pairs of caregivers and parents were analyzed by reporting the frequencies and percentages of agreement and disagreement in the six areas of selected childrearing beliefs and practices. Congruency was noted between the caregiver and parent matched pairs. However, the congruency was indicated by the pairs agreeing not to utilize or respond to the items listed in the questionnaire. From the findings several conclusions can be drawn. Some differences can be expected and congruency can be anticipated between the childrearing beliefs and practices of family day home caregiver and parent groups. More agreement than disagreement can be expected between the childrearing beliefs and practices of matched caregiver and parent pairs. Congruency can be anticipated between the childrearing beliefs and practices of matched caregiver and parent pairs in their agreement of what not to do or use as techniques with the child.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI8029014
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-07, Section: A, page: 2928.
- Thesis (Educat.D.)--University of North Texas, 1980.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Education, Early Childhood
- Other authors/contributors:
- University of North Texas
- Copyright:
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- Creation date:
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