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Household chaos and children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development in early childhood: Does childcare play a buffering role?
- Source :
- Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 34:115-127
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Evidence suggests that household chaos is associated with less optimal child outcomes. Yet, there is an increasing indication that children’s experiences in childcare may buffer them against the detrimental effects of such environments. Our study aims were to test: (1) whether children’s experiences in childcare mitigated relations between household chaos and children’s cognitive and social development, and (2) whether these (conditional) chaos effects were mediated by links between chaos and executive functioning. Using data from The Family Life Project (n = 1,235)—a population-based sample of families from low-income, rural contexts—our findings indicated that household disorganization in early childhood was predictive of worse cognitive and social outcomes at approximately age five. However, these relations were substantially attenuated for children attending greater childcare hours. Subsequent models indicated that the conditional associations between household disorganization and less optimal outcomes at age five were mediated by conditional links between disorganization and less optimal executive functioning.
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences
Social change
Population
Socio emotional
Cognition
Article
050105 experimental psychology
Family life
Education
Developmental psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Cognitive development
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Early childhood
Psychology
education
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 08852006
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Early Childhood Research Quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....35b89db3686d049f6ca358d81d1b4f27