TY - JOUR
T1 - Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade
AU - Allhusen, Virginia
AU - Belsky, Jay
AU - Booth, Cathryn
AU - Bradley, Robert
AU - Brownell, Celia A.
AU - Burchinal, Margaret
AU - Campbell, Susan B.
AU - Clarke-Stewart, Alison
AU - Cox, Martha
AU - Friedman, Sarah L.
AU - Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn
AU - Huston, Aletha
AU - Jaeger, Elizabeth
AU - Kelly, Jean
AU - Knoke, Bonnie
AU - Marshall, Nancy
AU - McCartney, Kathleen
AU - O'Brien, Marion
AU - Owen, Margaret Tresch
AU - Phillips, Deborah
AU - Pianta, Robert
AU - Robeson, Wendy Wagner
AU - Spieker, Susan
AU - Vandell, Deborah Lowe
AU - Weinraub, Marsha
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - Relations were examined between early non-maternal child care experience in the child's first 3 years and mother-child interaction when children were 3, 4.5, and in first grade. Longitudinal analyses investigated relations between cumulative child care experiences across the first 3 years and mother-child interaction from age 3 through first grade to test whether results pertaining to 4.5-year-olds and first graders deviated from those found across the first 36 months in this sample of 1,180 from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Previously found relations in the first 3 years were restricted to certain subsamples at these later ages: More non-maternal child care experience across the first 3 years was associated with less maternal sensitivity and less positive engagement of mother for White children but greater maternal sensitivity and child positive engagement for non-White children through first grade. Positive associations of mother-child interaction with hours of child care were similar for both African-American and Hispanic children. Negative associations between hours of care and sensitivity diminished over time for all children. Higher quality early child care experience was related to greater maternal sensitivity through first grade primarily when children had experienced relatively few hours of care. Early experience with higher quality child care benefited children's positive engagement with mother through first grade when their mothers were depressed. Results were similar whether effects were examined for non-maternal care or for non-parental care in which father care was excluded from considerations of child care experience.
AB - Relations were examined between early non-maternal child care experience in the child's first 3 years and mother-child interaction when children were 3, 4.5, and in first grade. Longitudinal analyses investigated relations between cumulative child care experiences across the first 3 years and mother-child interaction from age 3 through first grade to test whether results pertaining to 4.5-year-olds and first graders deviated from those found across the first 36 months in this sample of 1,180 from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Previously found relations in the first 3 years were restricted to certain subsamples at these later ages: More non-maternal child care experience across the first 3 years was associated with less maternal sensitivity and less positive engagement of mother for White children but greater maternal sensitivity and child positive engagement for non-White children through first grade. Positive associations of mother-child interaction with hours of child care were similar for both African-American and Hispanic children. Negative associations between hours of care and sensitivity diminished over time for all children. Higher quality early child care experience was related to greater maternal sensitivity through first grade primarily when children had experienced relatively few hours of care. Early experience with higher quality child care benefited children's positive engagement with mother through first grade when their mothers were depressed. Results were similar whether effects were examined for non-maternal care or for non-parental care in which father care was excluded from considerations of child care experience.
KW - Child care
KW - Mother-child interaction
KW - Mother-child relationship
KW - NICHD Study of Early Child Care
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U2 - 10.1016/S0163-6383(03)00035-3
DO - 10.1016/S0163-6383(03)00035-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0042698763
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 26
SP - 345
EP - 370
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 3
ER -