Effects of agression

The EPPE Project:

• children who have been in daycare are more likely to exhibit high levels of aggression

The NICHD  study:

• Found that children who were cared for outside the home are more likely to exhibit problem behaviour.

The Quebec report:

• In the post universal care period aggression among 2-4 year olds increased by 24%

The EPPE project

 By attending pre-school children were associated with greater? (4)

• Independence
• co-operation
• conformity
• sociability

Clarke-Stewart et al found that?

Children in group based day care were actually more sociable and better at negotiating with peers than those cared for at home.

Field

What was examined?

• The amount of time children spent in day care 
• The quality of daycare they children received

What did she find?

• The more time children spent in daycare the more friends they had and the more extra curricular they engaged in. 
• Children that experienced more quality day care were more physically affectionate