Is Toilet Training As Easy As A B C?

Toilet training is often viewed as a fairly straightforward process. This may be why much of the prescriptive literature available today has not been subject empirical investigation. This study followed twenty-six children through toilet training to investigate five factors that are assumed to be associated with a successful outcome to training - child readiness, parental readiness, behavioural style of parents, child temperament and the type of approach parent's use to train their child. Three of these five factors - behavioural style of parent's, child temperament and the approach parent's use to train their child - were found to be associated with a successful outcome. Advice for parent's who have difficulties with toilet training is presented along with recommendations for improving the measures used in this study for future research.

Author dc:creator

• DORAN, JOHN

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

10026.1/2465

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:pearl.plymouth.ac.uk:psy-theses-1119