ASPECTS OF QUALITY IN GREEK DAY-CARE-CENTERS

The quality of the caregiving environment for young infants in day car e centres in Athens was evaluated with 3 global measures; ITERS (Harms , Cryer & Clifford, 1989), PROFILE (Abbott-Shim & Sibley, 1987 a), CCF S (Dragonas, Tsiantis di Lambidi, 1995), and I measure of adult-child interaction (Arnett, 1989). Comparisons between the measures revealed great similarity of between the three global measures, but that the sp ecific adult-child interaction measure appeared to be measuring a diff erent aspect of quality of care. The general quality of care was low l ower than for other countries with similar research, and suggests the need for substantial improvement.