Stability in Nonmaternal Child Care Arrangements

ISBN-13: 9783639095661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 148 str.

Henry Tran

Opis

Recent research suggests that many preschoolers routinely experience unstable child care, which refers to childrens consistency in experience with care providers or in care arrangements. Other research shows these unstable care experiences have negative effects on childrens school readiness and adjustment outcomes. The current study looks at this important area of research in child care and specifically examines the effects of several types of child care stability-including frequency of child care arrangement and caregiver changes, use of multiple concurrent child care arrangements over time, and staff turnover rates in center-based child care-on childrens school readiness and adjustment outcomes, the rates and effects of child care stability on children from families of varying income levels, and the mediating influences of two potential processes-child-caregiver attachment relationships and the child care quality-on childrens school readiness and adjustment outcomes. The implications of the study findings and future directions of the research are discussed.

O autorze

Henry Tran is a researcher at Westat, a research firm in
Rockville, MD. He has previously served as a Post-Doctoral
Fellow conducting research on early childhood education programs
at George Mason University.