Childcare Attitudes Research Articles

The Identity of Motherhood Transformed by Social Media: A Phenomenological Study

Objective: This qualitative study was conducted to examine the effect of social media use on women's mothering roler and childcare attitudes. Methods: The study group for this research was determined using the criterion sampling method, which is a purposeful sampling method. The sample consisted of 27 women who actively use social media and have children between the ages of 0-6. Data were collected using an “Introductory Information Form” and a “Semi-structured Interview Form”. Data analysis was conducted using Colaizzi's phenomenological interpretation method. Results: The mean age of the women who participated in the study was 32.03+4.89 years. It was determined that 96.3% of the women used Instagram, 63% used Youtube, and 40.7% used Twitter, and they spent an average of 1-3 hours daily on these sites. It was determined that the mothers who participated in the study mostly sought help from their own mothers and close environment (70.4%), web browsers (22.2%), social media (14.8%) and health personnel (7.4%), respectively, as a solution approach when they encountered a situation or problem they did not know about child care. It was determined that the working mothers (59.3%) who participated in the study had a sense of guilt and inadequacy due to the perception of super motherhood created by the social media accounts they followed, and therefore, they were more lenient, soft and ignored the error in the care approach of their own children. Conclusion: Guidance for parents on accessing reliable health information and proactive use of social media by health care providers to promote healthy decisions is an important requirement of our age.

미취학 자녀를 둔 양육모의 양육스트레스 해소와 양육태도 개선을 위한 예술매개 심리지원 프로그램 개발

미취학 자녀를 둔 양육모의 양육스트레스 해소와 양육태도 개선을 위한 예술매개 심리지원 프로그램 개발

Long-Lasting Effects of the 2013 Yolanda Typhoon on Overall Health of Mothers and Children.

Three years after the 2013 Yolanda Typhoon, this study sought to determine the factors associated with the stress of the affected mothers and the health of the children on Leyte island, and the preparedness of the community to mitigate future potential disasters. Three hundred mothers with children from 0 to 7 years old were selected through convenience sampling, structured interviews conducted using the Hurricane-Related Traumatic Experiences questionnaire and the PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) Checklist 5 (PCL5), and the children's weights and heights were measured. The provisional PTSD prevalence was found to be 53.3% 3 y after Yolanda. The multiple regression analysis with multiple imputation for the missing values found that housing and childcare attitudes were significantly associated with preparedness. This study concluded that living in multistoried houses was useful for disaster mitigation and that the caregiving responsibility for their children could be a disaster preparedness motivation for mothers.

From Attachment to Recognition for Children in Care

Attachment theory has, over the last half-century, offered important insights into the nature of early experience and into human relationships more generally. These lessons have been influential in improving child-care attitudes and provision. While acknowledging such advances, our argument in this article is that the dominance accorded attachment theory in policy and professional discourse has reached a point where understandings of human relationships have become totalised within an attachment paradigm; it has become the ‘master theory’ to which other ways of conceiving of childcare and of relationships more generally become subordinated. Yet, many of the assumptions underlying attachment theory, and the claims made for it, are contestable. We trace the growing prominence of attachment theory in childcare, proceeding to critique the provenance of many claims made for it and the implications of these for practice. At the heart of the critique is a concern that an overreliance on attachment contributes to the biologisation of how we bring up children to the detriment of socio-cultural perspectives. We go on to offer one suggestive alternative way through which we might conceive of child-care relationships, drawing on Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition.

Who Should Finance Childcare? Multilevel Analysis of 24 Countries

This paper examines how the individual and country-level factors affect the childcare financing attitudes, particularly the effect of socialization in a particular welfare regime. This area of research is fraught with methodological and conceptual issues, including the over-reliance on Esping-Andersen’s regime typology. Therefore, the authors also investigate whether a more family-policy-nuanced categorization of welfare regimes better accounts for the cross-country variations in childcare attitudes. Using the 2012 ISSP data, the authors conducted the multilevel analysis of 24 European countries, and while the effect of most predictors is generally consistent with the previous research, this study’s most important finding is that the alternative Leitner’s “Varieties of Familialism” typology better accounts for the cross-national variations in childcare attitudes than the classical Esping-Anderson's typology. This speaks of the importance of a programmatic approach in the welfare state attitudes analysis which links the public support for specific social programs to its unique characteristics.

The Relation between the Mother's Childcare Attitude and how they Get Self-esteem In Their Childcare Assisted by Childcarer

The Relation between the Mother's Childcare Attitude and how they Get Self-esteem In Their Childcare Assisted by Childcarer

일반학부모의 장애아에 대한 태도가 통합보육태도에 미치는 영향

본 연구는 일반학부모의 장애아에 대한 태도가 통합보육태도에 미치는 영향을 알아보는데 목적을 갖고, 2012년 3월 2일부터 10일까지 J지역 소재 통합보육시설에 다니고 있는 일반 자녀를 둔 학부모 150명을 대상으로 설문조사하였는데 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 장애아에 대한 태도가 통합보육 일반 태도에 미치는 영향을 검증한 결과 인지적, 감정적 요소가 일반 태도에 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 장애아에 대한 태도가 통합보육 유아활동 및 교사관심에 미치는 영향을 검증한 결과 인지적, 행동적 요소가 유아활동 및 교사관심에 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 장애아에 대한 태도가 통합보육 행동문제에 미치는 영향을 검증한 결과 인지적, 감정적, 행동적 요소가 행동문제에 통계적으로 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구결과를 종합해 보면 일반학부모의 장애아에 대한 태도에 따라 통합보육태도에 차이가 있음을 알 수 있다. 이는 일반학부모의 장애아에 대한 인지적, 감정적 요소에서 차이를 보여 이들 요인의 인식 개선시 통합보육태도를 높이는 긍정적인 요소로 작용할 수 있음을 시사한 것으로 볼 수 있다. 이 같은 결과는 통합보육이 장애유아와 일반유아 모두가 서로의 다양성을 인정하며, 이질적인 상대의 존재를 받아들이고, 존중하며 함께 배우려는 학부모의 인식전환이 선행되어져야 할 것을 시사한 것으로 해석할 수 있다. In this study, a survey was carried out on 150 parents who have regular children attending integrated childcare centers in J area, through March 2 to March 10, 2012, with the purpose of figuring out the Effects of Attitudes toward Disabled Children on Integrated Childcare Attitudes in Regular Parents. The results are summarized as follows. First, the effect of attitudes toward disabled children on regular integrated childcare attitudes showed that cognitive and emotional factors had a statistically significant positive effect on regular attitudes. Second, the effect of attitudes toward disabled children on children's activities and teachers' concerns for integrated childcare showed that cognitive and behavioral factors had a statistically significant positive effect on children's activities and teachers' concerns. Third, the effect of attitudes toward disabled children on behavioral problems of integrated childcare showed that cognitive, emotional and behavioral factors had a statistically significant positive effect on behavioral problems. As for findings stated as above, there was a difference in integrated childcare attitude depending on regular parents' attitude toward disabled children. This implies that there is a difference in cognitive and emotional attitudes toward disabled children in regular parents, acting as positive factors that raise the integrated childcare attitude for the improvement of perception on these factors. Consequently, for the integrated childcare, both disabled children and regular children should admit each other's diversity and accept different each other's existence, and the perception change of parents, who try to respect and learn together, should be preceded.

농촌 조손가정의 양육, 건강 및 영양중재서비스의 효과

본 연구는 지역사회서비스투자사업의 일환으로 실시된 지역개발형 사업으로 중재서비스를 제공하는 작전연구의 일환으로 조손가정의 양육, 건강 및 영양중재서비스 효과를 분석한 분석적 연구이다. 연구대상자와 연구기간은 서비스제공집단과 비제공집단 간의 비교는 2008년 1월 현재 양육과 건강중재서비스 효과를 보았으며, 서비스제공집 단만의 조사는 2009년 1월에는 건강중재서비스의 효과를, 7월에는 영양중재서비스효과를 보았다. 조손가정의 인구사회학적 특성은 서비스제공집단과 비제공집단 간에 동질성이 확인되었으며, 조부모는 조모가 많은 편으로 평균 연령은 68.3세-70.1세이었고, 생활수준은 못 사는 편에 속하는 가정이 전체의 2/3 정도로 경제적 어려움을 보여주었으며, 교육수준은 "무학"이 가장 많았고, 배우자가 있는 조부모는 과반수이상이었다. 조부모의 양육스트레스는 서비스 제공집단과 비제공집단 간에 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 나타나지 않았으나, 아동이 지각한 조부모의 양육태도는 서비스를 받은 아이들의 우울수준이 현격하게 낮았다(t=2.90, df=116, p<.01). 부모영역의 스트레스는 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였고(t=1.85, df=116, p<.10), 학업영역에서는 현격한 차이를 보여 중재서비스의 효과(t=3.98, df=116, p<.001)가 검증되었다. 조부모의 건강상태에 대한 서비스제공집단과 비제공집단간에는 우울, 급성질환이환율, 수단적 일상생활수행 능력, 인지기능 및 운동실천율에서 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 중재서비스의 효과가 나타났다. 하지만, 서비스제공집단만의 1년 후의 효과에서는 중재서비스의 효과가 없는 것으로 나타났지만 상태는 유지된 것으로 나타났다. 영양중재서비스는 총점에서 통계적으로 유의한 효과는 없었으나, 하부영역인 주관적 영양 평가항목에서 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 검정되었다(t=18.230, p<.0001). 결론적으로 조손가정의 양육, 건강과 영양중재서비스가 효과가 있는 것으로 나타나, 앞으로 조손 가정을 위한 중재서비스가 정책적으로 시도되어야 할 것이다. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the rearing, health and nutrition services through intervention in GP-GC (grandparents-grandchildren) families. Methods: A structured questionnaire was administered in January 2008 and January 2009 to 55(70) grandparents of GP-GC families who received intervention services also GP-GC families that did not receive services. The study area was the city of Chunnam Province, South Korea. The intervention services were provided by electronic voucher one day per week. The questionnaire assessed the general characteristics of the grandparents, childcare stress and burden, health status (ADL, IADL, depression, subjective health status and fall index) and mini nutritional assessment(MNA). The data were analyzed using SPSS software and an F-test, Chi-squared test and t-test. Results: The stress of grandparents resulting from childcare was high, but depression in grandparents perceived by grandchildren was significantly lower in served GP-GC families than in non-served GP-GC families. Differences in scores of affection (t=2.12, df=116, p<.05), automatics (t=2.92, df=116, p<.01), realistic(t=2.24, df=116, p<.05), and level of depression(t=2.90, df=116, p<.01) were significant. Incidences of acute disease, IADL cognitive fuction and depression of grandparents were slightly higher. Intervention services for GP-GC families had an impact on the childcare attitude and health status of grandparents. The intervention services of nutrition for grandparents were not promoted, but the scoring for subjective nutrition status were statistically higher for the served group (t=18.230, p<.0001). Conclusions: This study found that intervention programs of childcare services and health and nutrition management are effective for grandparents of GP-GC families. Intervention services for GP-GC family should establish the political issue.

Behavioral development of infant holding and its laterality in relation to mothers’ handedness and child-care attitude

The holding of 465 Japanese infants by their mothers was longitudinally observed at 4 and 9 months with several checkups and questionnaires of physical and psychological development and child-care attitude in a larger longitudinal study of mother–child relationships. A left side bias in holding was significant for the 4-month-old infants. The infants’ increased autonomy in their ability to adopt a posture at 9 months weakened the holding bias. The mothers’ handedness was related to different right/left hand contact patterns, but it was significant only for holding on the left side. The infants’ reflexes relating to posture did not correlate with the holding bias at 4 months. The meaning and possible determinants of holding laterality are discussed.

Medical students' attitudes to caring for a young infant—can parenting a doll influence these beliefs?

AIMTo investigate whether attitudes to parenting were altered in final year medical students following a period spent caring for a simulated infant.METHODSSeventy medical students during their paediatric attachment in the...

The Childcare Attitude Inventory: preliminary norms, reliability and construct validity.

The purpose of this research note is to present preliminary norms and evidence of reliability and validity for the Childcare Attitude Inventory, a new research instrument being designed to identify adults who are emotionally capable of providing childcare of quality.

Clarity and ambivalence in rural mothers' attitudes toward other-than-mother child care

The extent of clarity or ambivalence in mothers' attitudes toward other-than-mother child care was examined in this study of 271 North Carolina mothers. Situational and attitudinal variables were also investigated to determine their influence on clarity or ambivalence in mothers' child care attitudes. Policy and programming implications were explored.

Child-care attitudes and development of young children of mentally ill and well mothers.

Young children of mentally ill mothers and well mothers were administered the WPPSI. Mother and child were observed in the test situation and mothers were administered the Maternal Attitude Scale and a measure of intelligence. Even partialling out mothers' IQ, scores of mothers who believe in encouraging the child's interaction with the environment correlated with child's IQ. Lower birth weight and greater birth complications were related to maternal attitudes reflecting continuation of the mother-child symbiosis and, among well mothers, more intrusive behavior in the test situation was also related to the belief in the importance of continuing the symbiosis as well as to greater denial of child-rearing concerns.

Childrearing attitudes among mothers volunteering and revolunteering for a psychological study.

Although the generality of findings in personality research is often limited by biases resulting from the use of volunteer Ss, this problem has not often been studied in non-student populations where there are no captive Ss to provide baseline data. A sample of 168 mothers was recruited by newspaper advertisement for a study of childcare attitudes using the Maternal Attitude Scale, a Likert-type questionnaire. of these volunteers, 64% revolunteered for additional studies. Significant results indicated that mothers who did not revolunteer felt less satisfaction in caring for infants, felt less ability to achieve reciprocity with the child, and expressed more conventional and stereotyped childcare attitudes than mothers who elected to revolunteer.