TY - JOUR
T1 - Day care children's play behaviors
T2 - Relationship to their mothers' and fathers' assessments of their parenting behaviors, marital stress, and marital companionship
AU - Roopnarine, Jaipaul L.
AU - Church, Catharine C.
AU - Levy, Gary D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The links between marital relations, parenting, and children’s higher and lower forms of play in the day care peer group were determined. Forty dual-earner couples provided assessmentso f their real and ideal modes of parenting, marital stress, and marital companionship. Their preschool-aged children who had been enrolled in day care for an average of 2 years were observed during peer group play in their day care centers. There were few significant differences between mothers and fathers in their assessments of their marital relations and modes of parenting. Mothers and fathers expressed a good deal of discrepancy between their real and ideal modes of parenting. Regression analysis revealed direct associations between maternal marital stress and maternal guilt and anxiety, dramatic and functional play; mothers’ marital companionship also showed direct associations with solitary and functional play. Modes of parenting did not show significant associations with children’s play behaviors. The findings are discussedw ith respect to the direct influence of marital relations on children’s social skills with peers in day care This project was supported by grant #lR03MH40965-01 to the first author from the National Institute of Mental Health. We express our gratitude to the parents, children, and day care directors for their cooperation and to Elissa Levy, Melinda Nordheim, Kristen Dingler, Andrea Mennis, and Seanna Donnelly for their assistance with the observations. Portions of this article were presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meetings, Baltimore, MD, 1987.
PY - 1990/9
Y1 - 1990/9
N2 - The links between marital relations, parenting, and children's higher and lower forms of play in the day care peer group were determined. Forty dual-earner couples provided assessments of their real and ideal modes of parenting, marital stress, and marital companionship. Their preschoolaged children who had been enrolled in day care for an average of 2 years were observed during peer group play in their day care centers. There were few significant differences between mothers and fathers in their assessments of their marital relations and modes of parenting. Mothers and fathers expressed a good deal of discrepancy between their real and ideal modes of parenting. Regression analysis revealed direct associations between maternal marital stress and maternal guilt and anxiety, dramatic and functional play; mothers' marital companionship also showed direct associations with solitary and functional play. Modes of parenting did not show significant associations with children's play behaviors. The findings are discussed with respect to the direct influence of marital relations on children's social skills with peers in day care.
AB - The links between marital relations, parenting, and children's higher and lower forms of play in the day care peer group were determined. Forty dual-earner couples provided assessments of their real and ideal modes of parenting, marital stress, and marital companionship. Their preschoolaged children who had been enrolled in day care for an average of 2 years were observed during peer group play in their day care centers. There were few significant differences between mothers and fathers in their assessments of their marital relations and modes of parenting. Mothers and fathers expressed a good deal of discrepancy between their real and ideal modes of parenting. Regression analysis revealed direct associations between maternal marital stress and maternal guilt and anxiety, dramatic and functional play; mothers' marital companionship also showed direct associations with solitary and functional play. Modes of parenting did not show significant associations with children's play behaviors. The findings are discussed with respect to the direct influence of marital relations on children's social skills with peers in day care.
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U2 - 10.1016/0885-2006(90)90025-V
DO - 10.1016/0885-2006(90)90025-V
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249018458
SN - 0885-2006
VL - 5
SP - 335
EP - 346
JO - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -