The relationship between child care quality, maternal stress and children's social competency /
The number of employed women has increased greatly all over the world and therefore has increased the demands for child care centres. However, not much has been written about them. Consequently, the dearth of the published reports on child care centres in Malaysia has inspired this study to investig...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur:
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2012
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| Online Access: | Click here to view 1st 24 pages of the thesis. Members can view fulltext at the specified PCs in the library. |
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| Summary: | The number of employed women has increased greatly all over the world and therefore has increased the demands for child care centres. However, not much has been written about them. Consequently, the dearth of the published reports on child care centres in Malaysia has inspired this study to investigate the impact of child care on children's development. The study was conducted to investigate the relationship between child care quality (i.e., overall classroom quality) and children's social competency as well as to examine the interaction between child care quality (i.e., overall classroom characteristics), maternal stress and children's social competency. It was hypothesized that (1) child care quality (i.e., overall classroom characteristics) is positively associated with children's social competency, and (2) maternal stress would moderate the relationship between child care quality and children's social competency. One hundred and thirty-seven working mothers aged from 25 years old to 45 years old who sent their children (age ranged from four years old to six years old) to five child care centres around Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya had been recruited in this study. The measures used in this study included the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R), Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI-SF) and Adaptive Social Behaviour Inventory (ASBI). The result showed that overall classroom characteristics positively correlated with children's social competency in which children who experienced high overall classroom quality were rated higher in social competency measure. There was no interaction effect between child care quality and maternal stress in the prediction of children's social competency. Hence, there was no evidence of maternal stress acting as moderator in the relationship between child care quality and children's social competency. The implications and limitations of the present study were also highlighted. |
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| Item Description: | Abstract in English and Arabic. "A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Human Sciences (Psychology)."--On t.p. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 82 leaves : ill. ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-70). |