Data gathered from Tyler, Texas, the University of North Texas, and the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) were used to compare children from commercial, home, church, and university based day care with children not attending day care. The research group, comprised of children attending day care (N=142), were located using non-probability sampling; those not in day care (the control group) came from the NSFH (N=1775). Data from the research group were weighted to match the control group. The independent and control variables included the child's age, length of time in day care, intellectual functioning; the parent's marital status and social class; the day care's staff to child ratio and the staff's training. All data, except that pertaining to the facility itself, were gathered from the children's parents using a self-report questionnaire. The remaining data were gathered through personal interview by the researcher. The dependent variable was an index of emotional and behavioral problems reported for the child. Overall, children who attended day care had only slightly more problems reported than those who did had not attended day care. When each center was examined separately, the children in home centers had the greatest number of problems, followed by the commercial centers and university center, with children from the church centers scoring the lowest. In contrast to earlier research, intellectual functioning was not enhanced by the day care experience. While the staff's training had a statistically significant relationship to the children's well-being, no relationship was found for the staff to child ratio. Further research on the impact of other characteristics of each type of day care is recommended.

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Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

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Pastaraisiais metais Lietuvoje buvo galima stebėti ir itin spartų nevyriausybinių organizacijų vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centrų gausėjimą. Tokį reiškinį, mūsų nuomone, galėjo įtakoti faktas, jog daugumoje savivaldybių buvo pradėta vykdyti Nacionalinė nevyriausybinių organizacijų vaikų dienos centrų 2002-2004 programa, kurios tąsa- Nacionalinė vaikų dienos centrų 2005-2007 metų programa ir 2008-2012 metų programa. NVO vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centrai, jų veikla, steigimo ypatumai yra mažai nagrinėti Lietuvos autorių, sociologų, mokslininkų tarpe. Šiuo darbu buvo siekiama teoriškai ir empyriškai pagrįsti vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centro veiklos modelį Lietuvoje. Užsibrėžto tikslo atskleidimui buvo siekta: išanalizuoti NVO vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centrų steigimo ir veiklos vykdymo teisinį reguliavimą; apibrėžti NVO vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centrų susikūrimo prielaidas pasaulyje ir Lietuvoje; atlikti Lietuvos NVO vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centrų PEST ir SWOT analizes; apibrėžti galimą NVO vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centro veikos modelį. Tyrimas empyriškai parėmė NVO vaikų ir jaunimo dienos centrų teorinį modelį, kurį paruošė ir pristatė autorė. / Few resent years there could be observed rapid growth of non-govermental organzations child and youth daycare centers. In our opinion, such occurence can be influenced by the fact, that majority of local administrations started to execute National non-govermental organizations child and youth daycare centers Pastaraisiais metais Lietuvoje buvo galima stebėti itin spartų nevyriausybinių 2002-2004 program. This program has a continuation – National child daycare centers 2005-2007 year and 2008-2012 year programs. NGO child and youth daycare centers, their activieties and establishment specificity has never been deeply examined by Lithuanian authors, socialogists or scientists. This work is done to reach theoretical and epyrical validity for Lithuanian NGO child and youth daycare centers activities model. To acomplish this task we tried to achive: to examine NGO child and youth daycare centers establishment and activities legal regulations; to define NGO child and youth daycare centers establishment premises; to cary out NGO child and youth daycare centers PEST and SWOT analysis; to carry out NGO child and youth daycare centers directors and experts interview (to adapt expert evaluation method). The research empirically based theoretical model of NGO child and youth daycare centers, which was prepared and presented by the author.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Newcastle, 2000. / Faculty of Education. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-286). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis PlanA (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

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.