嬰幼兒父母選擇托嬰中心之研究

A Study of Parents’ Daycare Center Choices for Their Toddlers

吳欣穎(Xin-Ying Wu)

指導教授 ： 梁珀華

朝陽科技大學/人文暨社會學院/幼兒保育系/碩士(2015年)

摘要

本研究主要探討嬰幼兒父母選擇托嬰中心之狀態。研究目的為了解嬰幼兒父母對托育服務選擇過程及考慮因素並了解父母對嬰幼兒之教養狀態。本研究採取質性研究方式，以臺中市不同區域之三間立案私立托嬰中心的4位嬰幼兒母親與2位嬰幼兒父親為研究對象，透過深入性訪談進行資料之蒐集，將內容轉化文字後以編碼方式整理，獲致之結論歸納如下：
一、嬰幼兒父母托育需求產生因素包含家庭經濟壓力、家中無法提供托育支援、母親個人因素、尋求專業托育四個因素。
二、嬰幼兒父母托育管道搜尋方式為分為個人社會網絡的內部搜尋，外部搜尋的上網搜尋以及就近尋找，實地尋訪三種方式。
三、選擇托嬰中心之父母對於托嬰中心之認同感較保母高，對保母抱持不信任想法。
四、嬰幼兒父母之托育考量因素共九項：包含乾淨整潔的環境、師資經驗與素質、嬰幼兒課程、同儕互動與送托感受、托育費用的合理性、工作（距離、與需要的送托時間配合）、公開透明的安全機制與機構合法立案。
五、嬰幼兒父母教養信念為剛柔並濟的教養風格，包含開明高關懷的教養信念與高要求的常規管教。
六、嬰幼兒父母教養以媽媽為主，並且會以黑臉與白臉方式相互搭配合作。另外，嬰幼兒父母在育兒及家務處理方面亦為相互支援之角色。
七、托嬰中心提供嬰幼兒父母實質保育協助與專業性服務兩部分。
最後依據研究結果提出省思與建議，提供托嬰中心、嬰幼兒父母以及未來相關研究者參考。

關鍵字

教養信念 ； 嬰幼兒 ； 托嬰中心

並列摘要

This study explores the state of toddlers’ parents when choosing a daycare center. The purpose of this study is to gain an insight into the daycare service selection process and the state of toddlers’ parents in parenting. The qualitative research method was adopted, with four toddlers’ mothers and two toddlers’ fathers whose toddlers are under the care of three licensed private daycare centers located in different parts of Taichung City as the research participants. Data was collected though in-depth interviews, and the contents were converted into text for compilation through coding. The conclusions obtained are summarized as follows:
1. There four factors contributing to toddler parents’ daycare needs include: family financial constraints, inability to provide daycare support at home, personal factors of the mother, and the search for professional daycare.
2. The three daycare channel search methods adopted by toddlers’ parents include: internal search through personal social networking, external search through online search, and site search through search in the vicinity.
3. The parents that choose daycare centers give more recognition to daycare centers than to babysitters; they also hold feelings of distrust towards babysitters.
4. Nine daycare factors are considered by toddlers’ parents, including: neat and tidy environment, teacher experience and quality, toddler programs, peer interaction and feelings towards daycare, the reasonability of daycare expenses, job (distance and daycare delivery time needs), open and transparent security mechanism, and legitimately licensed institutions.
5. As for toddler parents’ parenting beliefs, they take on the “lenient and strict” parenting style, including open-minded and highly caring parenting beliefs as well as high-standard discipline.
6. Between a toddler’s mother and father, the mother plays the main role in parenting. Both parents also work with each other, where one of them becomes the strict one and the other the more lenient one. In addition, the toddlers’ parents also play mutually supportive roles in parenting and in the handling of house chores.
7. Daycare centers cater to toddlers’ parents in two areas: substantial care assistance and professional services.
Finally, reflections and recommendations were proposed based on the research results, which shall serve as a reference for daycare centers, toddlers’ parents, and relevant follow-up researchers.

並列關鍵字

parenting beliefs ； toddler ； daycare center

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