両親の幼稚園に対する期待の実態調査

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The purpose of this study was to investigate what parents expect from preschool programs. Pilot Study tried to construct a scale to measure parental expectations toward preschools. Based on weekly observation of children at a preschool, interviews with their teachers, and open-end questionnaires filled in by mothers, the parental expectations were hypothesized to involve four dimensions of children's competencies: intellectual abilities, good classroom attitude, sociability, and interactions. In Main Study, fathers (N＝310) and mothers (N＝326) completed a questionnaire and a factor analysis of the scale resulted in a four-factor structure representing parental expectations for a child to develop intellectual abilities, good classroom attitude, basic life habits and social activeness. Further analysis as to whether parental expectations toward preschools are related to a child’ s birth order and a level of family income revealed that mothers tend to have higher expectations to the first-born child’ s basic life habits and social activeness, whereas fathers from lower family income are more concerned with the child's classroom attitude.
2009-03-31