ORGANIZATION OF DAILY ROUTINES IN FAMILIE S WITH SMALL CHILDREN - 4 CASE-STUDIES ON MEDIATING PROCESSES

Within the Dusseldorf Longitudinal Study ''From Lovers To Parents'' th e second part of this project consisted of four case studies with resp ect to daily routines in families with children from early pre-school age up to the first year of school. This study is based on the systemi c-ecological model for the analysis of family interaction and social i nfluences. In addition to the quantitative description of characterist ics of family development the qualitative in-depth-interviews have bee n interpreted in a multi-level approach and summed up as cases studies . The following presentation discusses the main questions within the t heoretical framework for the analysis of daily family routines. After a short summary of methodological issues an overview on the results of the case studies is given with emphasis on the mediating processes in the organisation of daily routines. The results of these evaluations of the interviews distinguished different kinds of family exposes and morphostatic versus morphogenetic regulation processes.