Pub Date : 2021-01-25DOI: 10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0339
Ogechi K. Jeffrey R. Nwadinobi, Jeffrey R. Gagne
Abstract:The temperament dimensions of anger, activity level (AL), and inhibitory control (IC) are representative of Rothbart’s negative affectivity, surgency, and effortful control factors, and are consistently related to child behavioral problems. Using parent and observer ratings of child temperament, we investigated links between anger, AL, IC, behavior problems (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], aggression, and externalizing) and maternal characteristics in 201 preschoolers and their parents. Anger, AL, and IC were associated with one another and the three behavior problems in the expected directions. Parent-rated temperament was associated with all behavioral problems across analyses. However, in more rigorous regression analyses, observer-rated AL and IC were linked with ADHD, anger was associated with aggression, and hyperactivity was linked with externalizing problems, showing some specificity. Maternal education moderated the relationship between observed anger and externalizing problems. Results indicate that multimethod assessment approaches enable a more contextualized interpretation of early child temperament and behavior-problem research.
{"title":"Preschool Anger, Activity Level, Inhibitory Control, and Behavior Problems: A Family Study Approach","authors":"Ogechi K. Jeffrey R. Nwadinobi, Jeffrey R. Gagne","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.4.0339","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The temperament dimensions of anger, activity level (AL), and inhibitory control (IC) are representative of Rothbart’s negative affectivity, surgency, and effortful control factors, and are consistently related to child behavioral problems. Using parent and observer ratings of child temperament, we investigated links between anger, AL, IC, behavior problems (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], aggression, and externalizing) and maternal characteristics in 201 preschoolers and their parents. Anger, AL, and IC were associated with one another and the three behavior problems in the expected directions. Parent-rated temperament was associated with all behavioral problems across analyses. However, in more rigorous regression analyses, observer-rated AL and IC were linked with ADHD, anger was associated with aggression, and hyperactivity was linked with externalizing problems, showing some specificity. Maternal education moderated the relationship between observed anger and externalizing problems. Results indicate that multimethod assessment approaches enable a more contextualized interpretation of early child temperament and behavior-problem research.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"339 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41546039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-22DOI: 10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0278
Adrian M. Jones, R. Adams
Abstract:We use social learning, self-control, and social disorganization theories to develop hypotheses related to tobacco and alcohol use among a racially diverse sample of Chicago adolescents. Data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods were used to test models that examine relationships between neighborhood-level and individual-level attributes on tobacco-use and alcohol-use frequencies. Our primary goal was to test hypotheses about the invariance of statistical relationships over three waves of data by using equality of regression coefficients tests. We found that the effect of deviant peers decreased over time for alcohol use but was invariant for tobacco use. The effect of self-control on alcohol use was invariant, yet its effect on tobacco use was not invariant and increased significantly by the third wave. Contextual variables were not, for the most part, significantly related to tobacco and alcohol use, and, contrary to our expectations, the effects were invariant over time.
{"title":"Peers, Self-Control, Neighborhoods, and Adolescent and Early Adult Tobacco and Alcohol Use: Assessing Invariance","authors":"Adrian M. Jones, R. Adams","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0278","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We use social learning, self-control, and social disorganization theories to develop hypotheses related to tobacco and alcohol use among a racially diverse sample of Chicago adolescents. Data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods were used to test models that examine relationships between neighborhood-level and individual-level attributes on tobacco-use and alcohol-use frequencies. Our primary goal was to test hypotheses about the invariance of statistical relationships over three waves of data by using equality of regression coefficients tests. We found that the effect of deviant peers decreased over time for alcohol use but was invariant for tobacco use. The effect of self-control on alcohol use was invariant, yet its effect on tobacco use was not invariant and increased significantly by the third wave. Contextual variables were not, for the most part, significantly related to tobacco and alcohol use, and, contrary to our expectations, the effects were invariant over time.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"278 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44519338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-22DOI: 10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0227
Gianna Rea-Sandin, T. C. Vasquez-O’Brien, Kathryn Lemery‐Chalfant
Abstract:This study examined the mediating role of emotional availability in the relation between parent positive personality and toddler problem behavior. The sample comprised 654 twins at 12 and 32 months. Primary caregivers (>95% mothers) completed six measures indexing parent positive personality assessed at 12 months, and emotional availability and toddler problem behaviors assessed at both times. Parent positive personality was positively associated with emotional availability and negatively associated with problem behavior. The indirect path from parent positive personality to problem behavior through emotional availability was significant, and parent positive personality was no longer significantly related to problem behavior, suggesting full mediation. Although problem behaviors were heritable, over half of the variance was due to the shared environment, pointing to early childhood as a time when parent characteristics and behaviors may have maximum influence. Parental emotional responsiveness could serve to reduce problem behaviors in young children.
{"title":"The Protective Role of Parent Positive Personality and Emotional Availability in Toddler Problem Behavior","authors":"Gianna Rea-Sandin, T. C. Vasquez-O’Brien, Kathryn Lemery‐Chalfant","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0227","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study examined the mediating role of emotional availability in the relation between parent positive personality and toddler problem behavior. The sample comprised 654 twins at 12 and 32 months. Primary caregivers (>95% mothers) completed six measures indexing parent positive personality assessed at 12 months, and emotional availability and toddler problem behaviors assessed at both times. Parent positive personality was positively associated with emotional availability and negatively associated with problem behavior. The indirect path from parent positive personality to problem behavior through emotional availability was significant, and parent positive personality was no longer significantly related to problem behavior, suggesting full mediation. Although problem behaviors were heritable, over half of the variance was due to the shared environment, pointing to early childhood as a time when parent characteristics and behaviors may have maximum influence. Parental emotional responsiveness could serve to reduce problem behaviors in young children.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"227 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44943028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-22DOI: 10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0252
Gunilla Stenberg
Abstract:Two experiments examined 12- to 13-month-old infants’ reactions to noncontingent responding by the parent (Experiment 1, 40 infants) or by an unfamiliar adult (Experiment 2, 40 infants). During the initial play phase, the adult was either reading a book or using his or her mobile phone, resulting in a response delay when the infant would seek the adult’s attention. During the test phase, the infants were shown an ambiguous toy as the adult simultaneously conveyed positive information. The infants in the mobile-phone condition looked for a shorter time at the adult than did the infants in the book condition, regardless of the familiarity of the adult. The findings indicate that the type of activity that caused the adults’ lack of contingent responsiveness differentially influenced the infants’ reactions to the adults’ noncontingent responding.
{"title":"Infants React Differently to Adults’ Noncontingent Responding Depending on the Adult’s Activity","authors":"Gunilla Stenberg","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0252","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Two experiments examined 12- to 13-month-old infants’ reactions to noncontingent responding by the parent (Experiment 1, 40 infants) or by an unfamiliar adult (Experiment 2, 40 infants). During the initial play phase, the adult was either reading a book or using his or her mobile phone, resulting in a response delay when the infant would seek the adult’s attention. During the test phase, the infants were shown an ambiguous toy as the adult simultaneously conveyed positive information. The infants in the mobile-phone condition looked for a shorter time at the adult than did the infants in the book condition, regardless of the familiarity of the adult. The findings indicate that the type of activity that caused the adults’ lack of contingent responsiveness differentially influenced the infants’ reactions to the adults’ noncontingent responding.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"252 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-22DOI: 10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0308
Elien Mabbe, B. Soenens, M. Vansteenkiste, S. D. De Pauw
Abstract:Although autonomy-supportive parenting yields manifold benefits for adolescents’ development, there is a dearth of research addressing the question of whether adolescents reap the benefits of this parenting style, irrespective of their personality. Accordingly, this study examined whether associations between perceived maternal autonomy support and adolescent well-being depend on adolescents’ dispositional motivational orientations. Further, we examined whether associations between perceived maternal autonomy support and well-being are accounted for by adolescents’ subjective experiences of goodness of fit. A multi-informant three-wave longitudinal study (N = 198 at T1, 51% female, M age = 15 years) was used, allowing for an analysis of the associations both at the level of between-person differences and within-person changes. Adolescents’ motivational orientations did not moderate associations between maternal autonomy support and well-being. Multilevel structural equation modeling showed that experiences of goodness of fit played an intervening role in associations between maternal autonomy support and adjustment. The discussion focuses on different meanings of the goodness-of-fit concept.
{"title":"Is Autonomy-Supportive Parenting Beneficial Only to Adolescents With an Autonomous Personality? Two Meanings of Goodness of Fit","authors":"Elien Mabbe, B. Soenens, M. Vansteenkiste, S. D. De Pauw","doi":"10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MERRPALMQUAR1982.66.3.0308","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although autonomy-supportive parenting yields manifold benefits for adolescents’ development, there is a dearth of research addressing the question of whether adolescents reap the benefits of this parenting style, irrespective of their personality. Accordingly, this study examined whether associations between perceived maternal autonomy support and adolescent well-being depend on adolescents’ dispositional motivational orientations. Further, we examined whether associations between perceived maternal autonomy support and well-being are accounted for by adolescents’ subjective experiences of goodness of fit. A multi-informant three-wave longitudinal study (N = 198 at T1, 51% female, M age = 15 years) was used, allowing for an analysis of the associations both at the level of between-person differences and within-person changes. Adolescents’ motivational orientations did not moderate associations between maternal autonomy support and well-being. Multilevel structural equation modeling showed that experiences of goodness of fit played an intervening role in associations between maternal autonomy support and adjustment. The discussion focuses on different meanings of the goodness-of-fit concept.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"308 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44519129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-17DOI: 10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0145
J. Noh, Marc Jambon, J. Smetana, In Jae Lee, M. Killen
Abstract:Children's evaluations of necessary harm (acts intended to prevent a greater harm) and how maternal disapproval and peer relationship play roles in this context were examined. A total of 120 children at 6, 9, and 12 years of age evaluated scenarios depicting prototypic and necessary (physical or verbal) harm. When a mother was depicted as disapproving of necessary harm, children across ages evaluated the act to be more wrong for verbal (but not physical) harm. In addition, children judged necessary harm to be more wrong when the victim was a disliked peer than a friend. In terms of age differences, 12-year-olds judged necessary physical harm to be less wrong and justified their choices with reference to actors' positive actions more than did younger children (6- and 9-year-olds). Findings demonstrated that harm type, maternal disapproval, and peer relationship status are related to children's judgments about necessary harm.
{"title":"Children's Evaluations of Necessary Harm: The Role of Maternal Disapproval and Friend Relationship Status","authors":"J. Noh, Marc Jambon, J. Smetana, In Jae Lee, M. Killen","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0145","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Children's evaluations of necessary harm (acts intended to prevent a greater harm) and how maternal disapproval and peer relationship play roles in this context were examined. A total of 120 children at 6, 9, and 12 years of age evaluated scenarios depicting prototypic and necessary (physical or verbal) harm. When a mother was depicted as disapproving of necessary harm, children across ages evaluated the act to be more wrong for verbal (but not physical) harm. In addition, children judged necessary harm to be more wrong when the victim was a disliked peer than a friend. In terms of age differences, 12-year-olds judged necessary physical harm to be less wrong and justified their choices with reference to actors' positive actions more than did younger children (6- and 9-year-olds). Findings demonstrated that harm type, maternal disapproval, and peer relationship status are related to children's judgments about necessary harm.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"145 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41985563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-17DOI: 10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0174
Jingjing Zhu, Bowen Xiao, Yan Li, Will E. Hipson, R. Coplan
Abstract:The aim of this short-term longitudinal study was to explore the moderating role of insecure mother–child attachment (i.e., ambivalent and avoidant) in the relations between shyness and indices of adjustment difficulties in early childhood. Participants were 360 children (200 boys and 160 girls, Mage = 4.72 years, SD = 0.63) attending preschools/kindergartens in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. At Time 1, mothers rated children's shyness and insecure attachment. At Time 2, 1½ years later, teachers assessed children's adjustment outcomes at school. Among the results, shyness was negatively associated with sociability, social competence, and internalizing problems. However, both ambivalent and avoidant insecure attachment significantly moderated these associations, exacerbating the relations between shyness and indices of adjustment difficulties. Results are discussed in terms of the contributions of attachment to young shy children's adjustment outcomes.
{"title":"Shyness and Socioemotional Functioning in Young Chinese Children: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment","authors":"Jingjing Zhu, Bowen Xiao, Yan Li, Will E. Hipson, R. Coplan","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0174","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The aim of this short-term longitudinal study was to explore the moderating role of insecure mother–child attachment (i.e., ambivalent and avoidant) in the relations between shyness and indices of adjustment difficulties in early childhood. Participants were 360 children (200 boys and 160 girls, Mage = 4.72 years, SD = 0.63) attending preschools/kindergartens in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. At Time 1, mothers rated children's shyness and insecure attachment. At Time 2, 1½ years later, teachers assessed children's adjustment outcomes at school. Among the results, shyness was negatively associated with sociability, social competence, and internalizing problems. However, both ambivalent and avoidant insecure attachment significantly moderated these associations, exacerbating the relations between shyness and indices of adjustment difficulties. Results are discussed in terms of the contributions of attachment to young shy children's adjustment outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"174 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42940180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-17DOI: 10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0113
Jill K. Walls, L. Pellerin
Abstract:The present study used a subsample of 450 children from the ECLS-B data set to examine longitudinal associations between multiple features of nonparental care at age 2 and socioemotional development at kindergarten entry, taking into account parents' attitudes and behaviors, family composition, poverty status, and child characteristics. Specifically, we examined care type, hours, observed quality, and changes in those features from age 2 to age 4. Controlling for baseline behavior and demographic covariates, results of multiple regression analyses suggested that caregiver sensitivity, parents' attitudes and behaviors, poverty status, nonrelative care, and hours of care predicted socioemotional development at kindergarten entry. Moving from nonrelative care into center-based care and increasing care hours from age 2 to age 4 were associated with decreases in socioemotional development. Results from this study are discussed in relation to findings from other nationally representative studies of early childhood, along with potential implications for practitioners and ideas for future research.
{"title":"Effects of Multiple Features of Nonparental Care and Parenting in Toddlerhood on Socioemotional Development at Kindergarten Entry","authors":"Jill K. Walls, L. Pellerin","doi":"10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.2.0113","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The present study used a subsample of 450 children from the ECLS-B data set to examine longitudinal associations between multiple features of nonparental care at age 2 and socioemotional development at kindergarten entry, taking into account parents' attitudes and behaviors, family composition, poverty status, and child characteristics. Specifically, we examined care type, hours, observed quality, and changes in those features from age 2 to age 4. Controlling for baseline behavior and demographic covariates, results of multiple regression analyses suggested that caregiver sensitivity, parents' attitudes and behaviors, poverty status, nonrelative care, and hours of care predicted socioemotional development at kindergarten entry. Moving from nonrelative care into center-based care and increasing care hours from age 2 to age 4 were associated with decreases in socioemotional development. Results from this study are discussed in relation to findings from other nationally representative studies of early childhood, along with potential implications for practitioners and ideas for future research.","PeriodicalId":51470,"journal":{"name":"Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"113 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47181540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brandon N. Clifford, Larry J. Nelson, Cortney A. Evans
Abstract:Language serves as a mechanism through which children are able to interact and communicate with others. Thus, when children do not develop language at a typical pace, there may be cause for concern. The purpose of the current study was to examine the language production of children displaying various forms of social withdrawal (reticent, solitary-passive, and solitaryactive behavior) and children engaging in subtypes of aggression (relational, physical, and comorbid). Participants came from preschools operated by a large private university located in the intermountain region of the western United States (N = 220, Mage = 4.58, 53% female). We observed the participating children, and teachers and parents completed reports on the children's behaviors. Results revealed that reticent, solitary-passive, and solitary-active children produced less language compared to their nonwithdrawn peers. Further analyses revealed language differences between subtypes of social withdrawal. Physically aggressive children produced less language compared to nonaggressive children, and comorbid aggressive children produced more language compared to their nonaggressive, physically aggressive, and relationally aggressive peers. The discussion focuses on contextual and conceptual factors that may play a role in understanding the relation between language production, social withdrawal, and aggression.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-07DOI: 10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.66.1.0034
Rachel C. Katz, M. Easterbrooks
Abstract:This study investigated associations between child care participation and socioemotional and language development of children born to adolescent mothers. Participants were 704 mothers and their children (mean age = 24 months) enrolled in a randomized controlled-trial evaluation of a voluntary statewide home visiting program for first-time young parents. Findings showed that nonmaternal child care (i.e., organized group care, grandparent care, and other family and friend care) was prevalent in this sample. (Children spent over 30 hr per week in organized group care and nearly 20 hr per week in the care of grand-parents and other family and friends.) Furthermore, organized group care was associated with significantly higher performance on assessments of socioemotional competence and language development compared to maternal-only care. These findings have important program and policy implications highlighting the benefits of child care participation and the importance of creating awareness of these benefits, as well as promoting increased access to child care.
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