Developing a model to test the predictors and consequences of the amount of time school-age children spend in self-care
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Cathy Chris Payne (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Hyman Rodman
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop and test a model of the predictors and consequences of the amount of time children (in Grades K-6) spend in self-care. Specifically, this study investigated the role of parents' perceptions as predictors of the amount of time their children spend in self-care and the consequences of that amount of time in self-care on the child and parent outcomes of stress and satisfaction with the care arrangement. The sample consisted of 812 children (in Grades K-6). The students' classrooms were randomly selected from 11 school systems which were randomly selected, stratified by population density, from across North Carolina. A structural equations model utilizing path analysis was used to examine the relationship among the exogenous variables (parental perceptions), endogenous variables (child and parent outcomes of stress and satisfaction), and the mediating variable (amount of time in self-care). The LISREL VI program available through SPSSX was used to test and to modify the a priori conceptual model from which the hypotheses of this study were derived. Data from this study indicate that the conceptual model of the predictors and consequences of the amount of time children spend in self-care may be specified to substantively explain the contexts surrounding the use of self-care arrangements.
Developing a model to test the predictors and consequences of the amount of time school-age children spend in self-care
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1989
- Subjects
- Child care $x Psychological aspects
- Stress in children
- Stress (Psychology)
- Parent and child