CD 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Playtime, Social Desirability Bias
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Background: how individual children spend their time is rarely studied, four main areas. School and day-care time: american students spend less time in school than chinese and japanese students. Free play time versus organized activities: children learn in formal and informal settings. Time in out of school learning activities: reading is linked to high verbal achievement tests. Tv has been linked to a lower score. Time spent in family activities: well-being is connected to family and home-life. Factors associated with di erences in time use: children"s time is likely to be a ect by their age, systematic changes in children"s activities occur as they grow. More structured activities: gender di erence appear in elementary school, employment statues of the parents also a ect the amount of time that children spend in di erent activities, children with employed mother spent more time in day care. Young children depend on highly structured lives: less unstructured activities.