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Shuper Engelhard, Einat; Klein, Pnina S.; Yablon, Yaacov B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
An attempt was made in the present study to identify mothers' and caregivers' teaching (mediation) behaviour in relation to toddlers' social behaviour. Participants were 103 toddlers, two- to four-year olds, their mothers, and 28 caregivers at 16 public daycare centres in Israel. Two observations were carried out, one in toddlers' homes and the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Behavior, Educational Quality, Caregivers
Larson, Lyle R.; Fraser, Jennefer D. – Canadian Counsellor, 1979
This paper summarizes the existing literature on the importance of the family meal in analyzing family interaction, presents the results of a naturalistic observational study of a normal (nonpathological) family, and identifies the implications of the study for research and therapy. (Author)
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Environment, Family Relationship, Human Relations
Reid, Leonard N.; Frazer, Charles F. – 1978
In a two-stage procedure to discover how children use television commercials in family group viewing situations, researchers first conducted thirty family interviews with as many family members present as possible; then they selected nine children's families for extended (three month) participant observation to study the formative aspects of each…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Family Life
Wandersman, Lois Pall – 1975
This paper describes an ecological observational study of social interaction and cognitive socialization in family day care. The study employs a reciprocal model which analyzes effects of the caregiver on the child and of the child on the caregiver by comparing the interaction of the same caregiver with "own" and "other"…
Descriptors: Affection, Behavior Patterns, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care