Children's Home Environments In Three Socio-Economic Status Groups In Ankara

摘要

Home and its surroundings constitute one of the most important settings for thedeveloping child. Ironically however, it is also one of the least explored settings inrelation to the child. In a review of children's home environments, Parke (1978,33-81) noted that for further progress, more developmental^ oriented descriptivestudies of the physical, social and intellectual spheres of the home environmentneed to be undertaken with an interdisciplinary approach. As part of a projectin congruence with these suggestions, the present paper aims to explore the generalphysical characteristics of primary school children's homes and their surroundings,family-living and space usage patterns as well as some evaluative responses tosurroundings. In order to cover a broader spectrum of social and physicalenvirohments in studying the relationships to the developmental variables, theproject included samples from three socio-economic-status (SES) groups in Ankara,namely, the upper, middle and lower