Day Care Research
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- Day Care Research
- Shea
- Procedure
- Videotaped children in a playground during first 10 weeks at nursery
- Children aged 3-4
- Measured
- Rough and tumble play
- Aggression
- Peer interaction
- Distance from teacher
- Distance from nearest child
- Findings
- Peer interaction increased
- Distance from teacher decreased
- Rough and tumble play increased
- Sociability increased, more in those there for 5 days a week
- Conclusion
- Day care makes children more sociable and less aggressive
- Procedure
- Di Lalla
- Procedure
- Observed 62 pairs of same-sex children in a lab playroom for 20 mins
- Children aged 5 and had never met before
- Measured
- Aggression
- Pro-social behaviour
- The frequency of each behaviour was correlated with the number of hours the child spent in day care
- Findings
- Children who spent less time in day care were more pro social
- Boys were more aggressive than girls but more pro social
- Conclusions
- May affect pro-social behaviour but not aggression
- Procedure
- EPPE
- Procedure
- Long term study of 3000 children attending different types of day care
- Assessed from age 3-7
- Data collected via
- Observations
- Tests
- Reports from staff
- Findings
- Spending more than 20 hours/week increased anti-social behaviour
- If carers kept changing, aggression increased
- Independence + peer sociability increased
- Positive effects most evident in disadvantaged children
- Conclusion
- Daycare can increase aggression but if care is good peer sociability can increase
- Procedure
- Shea
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