Do They Practice What They Preach? An Ecocultural, Multidimensional, Group-Based Examination of the Relationship between Beliefs and Behaviours among Child Care Providers

Autor/inn/en	Tonyan, Holli A.; Mamikonian-Zarpas, Ani; Chien, Dorothy
Titel	Do They Practice What They Preach? An Ecocultural, Multidimensional, Group-Based Examination of the Relationship between Beliefs and Behaviours among Child Care Providers
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 183 (2013) 12, S.1853-1877 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2012.759949
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Behavior; Child Caregivers; Individual Characteristics; Sociocultural Patterns; Progressive Education; Classification; Cultural Influences; Theories; Interviews; Surveys; Multivariate Analysis; Traditional Schools; Nontraditional Education; Observation; Comparative Analysis; Attachment Behavior; Affective Behavior; Positive Attitudes; Negative Attitudes; Stimulation; Psychological Patterns; Parents; Work Environment; Arkansas; California; Massachusetts; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Virginia; Washington; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Theory; Theorie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Multivariate Analyse; Traditioneller Unterricht; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Beobachtung; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Negative Fixierung; Eltern; Arbeitsmilieu; Kalifornien; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Research examining child-care providers' beliefs and behaviour has produced contradictory evidence perhaps because analyses commonly examine providers as a homogenous group. Among providers in the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we used cluster analysis to identify groups based on profiles of beliefs. We found evidence for five groups: "Progressive" (high progressive, low traditional), "Traditional" (high traditional, low progressive), "Eclectic" (high on both), "Alternative" (low on both), and "Moderate" (high progressive, moderate traditional). Progressives were younger, paid more, and less often non-White as compared with other groups. Progressives were less directive than all other groups, but not different in enriching or responsive interactions. Background, beliefs and behaviours are complex and multidimensional; group-based analyses better represented that complexity and the connections between beliefs and behaviour. Thus, summarising beliefs and behaviours into larger, molar composites may move too far from essential grounding in what people actually believe and do. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10