Impact of day care on aggressiveness
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- Created on: 11-05-14 19:02
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- Impact of day care on aggressiveness
- EPPE project
- 3000 children aged 3-7 yrs in a variety of day care settings
- children who spent longer in day care were rated by teachers as more aggressive and disobedient
- high levels of group care before age of 3 (particularly before age 2) were associated with higher levels of aggression
- high-quality levels reduced these levels
- NICHD study
- longitudinal study conducted in the US since 1991 - followed progress of over 100 children
- at age 5 - children who had been in any kind of day care were rated as more assertive, disobedient and aggressive
- children in full-time day care (30+ hours) were about 3x more likely to show behaviour problems compared to those cared for by mum at home
- Evaluation
- lack of causal relationship
- research does not demonstrate that day care has caused any later behaviours - only correlations have been demonstrated
- Dingfelder suggests that we need to better understand the process e.g. mediating factors
- lack of causal relationship
- EPPE project
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