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Daily routines of pre-school children: effects of age, birth order, sex and social class, and developmental correlates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Annette Lawson  and
J. D. Ingleby
Annette Lawson
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit on Environmental Factors in Mental and Physical Illness, Londoncor1corresp
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J. D. Ingleby
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit on Environmental Factors in Mental and Physical Illness, Londoncor1corresp
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Children's daily activities and interactions were quantified from mothers' accounts of the preceding 24-hour period. These ‘diaries’ were obtained on three occasions from 54 families with two pre-school children. Effects of age, birth order, sex, and social class were found which support the findings of other studies: an inverted U-shaped relationship existed between the intensity of attention received and the child's intelligence and developmental quotients. A relatively high correlation between IQ and an affective measure of child care furnished further evidence that the differences in caretaking relevant to intellectual development are qualitative rather than quantitative ones.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1974 , pp. 399 - 415
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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