Effects of day care and maternal teaching on child educability
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 32 (4), 325-335
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1991.tb00883.x
Abstract
Two groups of matched mother-child pairs, a day care sample (N = 38) and a home reared sample (N = 38) participated in a study testing mothers for degree of decentred teaching and children for degree of decentred educability. The children were seven years old. Mother and child were tested in separate settings, thus preventing interdependency among scores. The study used a matched-pair design with control of five background variables; age of the child, mother's educational level, mother's occupational status, family SES level, and type of family. The results showed strong positive effects of both day care experience and maternal teaching on child educability. Day care experience improved the educability of children independent of the mother's teaching strategy and gender of the child.Keywords
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