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- Title
- Mother's safety intervention strategies with toddlers and their relationship to child characteristics
- Related
- Early child development and care, Vol. 176, Issue 3 & 4, p.271-284
- DOI
- 10.1080/03004430500258495
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date
- 2006
- Author/Creator
- Diamond, Alexandra
- Author/Creator
- Bowes, Jennifer
- Author/Creator
- Robertson, Greg
- Description
- Injury prevention at home is an important concern for parents of toddlers. This study investigated safety-related intervention strategies of 40 middle-class Australian mothers, and their relationship with three child characteristics: gender, temperament and language comprehension. In an interview at home, mothers reported frequency of use of 15 strategies and completed a child temperament questionnaire. Their two-year-olds were tested for language comprehension. Principal component analysis revealed three types of strategies: educate, control, and remove risk. Relationships were found between strategy type and two child characteristics: temperament and language comprehension. Control strategies were linked to active, intense children; and educate strategies were linked to persistent children and to children with higher language comprehension. Implications are discussed for safety-related parenting strategies with toddlers.
- Description
- 14 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- mothers
- Subject Keyword
- toddlers
- Subject Keyword
- safety strategies
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Australian Centre for Educational Studies
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/8272
- Identifier
- ISSN:1476-8275
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2006000387
- Language
- eng
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