Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10620/17754
Longitudinal Study: LSAC
Title: Child care quality and children's cognitive and socio-emotional development: an Australian longitudinal study
Authors: Gialamas, A 
Zubrick, S 
Sawyer, M 
Mittinty, M 
Lynch, J 
Zubrick, S. R. 
Sawyer, M. G. 
Mittinty, M. N. 
Publication Date: 23-Oct-2013
Pages: 21
Keywords: cognitive skills
child-care
early childhood
socio-emotional skills
Abstract: There is growing evidence that high-quality non-parental child care can contribute to children’s learning, development and successful transition to school. Research examining the quality of child care and the effect on children’s development is not well documented outside the USA. We used data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to examine the association between domain-specific aspects of child care quality at ages two to three and children’s cognitive (receptive vocabulary, literacy, maths proficiency) and socio-emotional development (internalising, externalising behaviours) at ages four to five and six to seven (n = 772–1136, depending on outcome). After extensive controls for parent, family and child background characteristics, higher quality relationships were associated with higher receptive vocabulary, literacy and maths scores and lower internalising and externalising problem behaviour scores at four to five and these effects although weaker, were still evident at ages six to seven. Activities in child care and provider/programme characteristics of care were not associated with children’s developmental outcomes.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2013.847835
Keywords: Child Care; Children -- Early childhood; Child Development -- Cognitive; Child Development -- Emotional
Research collection: Journal Articles
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