MATERNAL ATTITUDES OF WORKING MOTHERS AND CHOICE OF ALTERNATIVE CHILD-CARE ARRANGEMENTS
Abstract
Investigations on the effects of day-care centers on thedevelopment of children suggest that behaviors displayed by childrenwho attend day-care centers may be related to family variables whichhave themselves influenced the choice of kind of child-carearrangements. The present study compares the attitudes of 30 workingmothers whose children are taken care of at home by a live-incaregiver with the attitudes of 30 working mothers whose childrenattend day-care centers. Results show that the two groups of mothers donot differ in the attitudes towards child autonomy but mothers whosechildren are taken care for at home reveal significantly more positiveattitudes towards motherhood than mothers whose children attendday-care centers.
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Interamericana.
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Child Development, 49, 929-949.
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development. American Psychologist, 32, 51 3-531.
COHLER, Ð’. J., WEISS, J. L., & GRUNEBAUM, H. U. (1967). The Maternal Attitude
Scale (unpublished preliminary manual). Cambridge, Massachusets: Mental
Health Center, Harvard University.
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11, 575-582.
EDER, M. (1984, março). Parenting in Paris. Working mother, pp. 65-69.
EMMERICH, W. (1969). The parental role. A functional-cognitive approach.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 34, 8.
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practices. Child development, 20, 157-162.
ETAUGH, С (1980). Effects of nonmaternal care on children: Research evidence
and popular views. American psychologist, 35 (4), 309-319.
GUILFORD, J. (1954). Psychometric methods. Nova Iorque: McGraw-Hill.
HEREFORD, С F. (1963). Changing parental attitudes through group discussion.
Austin: University of Texas Press.
HOWELL, M. (1983, julho). Is day care hazardous to health? Working mother,
pp. 37-38.
KAGAN, J., KEARSLEY, R. Ð’., & ZELAZO, P. R. (1978). Infancy: Its place in human
development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
KOHN, M. (1963). Social class and parent-child relationships: An interpretation.
American Journal of Sociology, 68, 471 -480.
LACKEY, A. B. (1979, fevereiro). A survey of maternal attitudes toward child
rearing practices of day care children. Tese de Doutorado. Ball State
University, Muncie, Estados Unidos.
LIKERT, R. (1932). A technique for the measurement of attitudes. Archives of
psychology, 140, 1-50.
Ministério da Saúde. Coordenação do Projeto Materno-lnfantil (1972). Creches:
instruções para instalação e funcionamento. Rio de Janeiro.
MOORE, T. (1975). Exclusive early mothering and its alternatives: The outcome to
adolescence. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 16, 255-272.
RAMEY, C, & SMITH, B. (1976). Assessing the intelectual consequences of early
intervention with high-risk infants. American Journal of Mental Deficiency,
81, 318-324.
ROBINSON, H., & ROBINSON, N. M. (1971). Longitudinal development in very
young children in a comprehensive day care program: The first two years. Child
development. 42, 1673-1683.
RUSSO, N. F. (1976). The motherhood mandate. Journal of Social Issues, 32,
143-154.
SANDER, L (1962). Issues in early mother-child interaction. Journal of the
American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 2, 141-166.
SCHAEFER, E., & BELL, R. Q. (1958). Development of a parental attitude research
instrument. Child Development 29, 339-361.
SCHWARZ, J. C, STRIKLAND, R. G., & KROLICK, G. (1974). Infant day care:
Behavioral effects at preschool age. Developmental Psychology, 10, 502-506.
SPOCK, B. (1976). Baby and child care. Nova Iorque: Pocket Books.
WILSON, J. С (1978). A comparison of the attitudes toward child rearing practices
of teachers and parents of children in the day care setting. Tese de Doutorado.
University of Maryland, Maryland.
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2012-07-05
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Raja Gabaglia Preuss, M. (2012). MATERNAL ATTITUDES OF WORKING MOTHERS AND CHOICE OF ALTERNATIVE CHILD-CARE ARRANGEMENTS. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 2(3), 213–225. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17001
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