Toilet training is often viewed as a fairly straightforward process. This may be why much of the prescriptive literature available today has not been subject to empirical investigation. This study followed twenty-six children through toilet training to investigate five factors that are assumed to be associated with a successful outcome to training - child readiness, parental readiness, behavioural style of parents, child temperament and the type of approach parent's use to train their child. Three of these five factors - behavioural style of parent's, child temperament and the approach parent's use to train their child - were found to be associated with a successful outcome. Advice for parent's who have difficulties with toilet training is presented along with recommendations for improving the measures used in this study for future research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:580476 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Doran, John |
| Publisher | University of Plymouth |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2465 |
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