Abstract

In keeping with the aims of NICHD-RFA (88-HD-08), """"""""Effects of Non-Parental Infant Day Care on Child Development,"""""""" the proposed study is an attempt to assess and evaluate the effects of infant day care on children's emotional, social, and cognitive development. It follows the psychological and physical progress of 150 children from birth to 3 1/2 years, taking into account and weighing the relative contributions to that progress of the children's constitutional characteristics, their family contexts, and their day-care experiences. It attempts to identify the conditions under which maternal employment in the first year of an infant's life helps or hinders the infant's development. To do so, it draws on a wide range of assessment methods and measures, including observations at home and in the day-care setting, interviews and questionnaires given to the mothers, fathers and other caregivers, and standard assessments of the children's behavior in semi-structured laboratory situations. In addition, children and their parents are observed and interviewed by trained clinical practitioners. The study also relies on multivariate statistical analyses and the unique advantage of a national collaborative sample.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Cooperative Clinical Research--Cooperative Agreements (U10)
Project #
5U10HD025456-03
Application #
3560229
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (SRC (08))
Project Start
1990-01-24
Project End
1994-12-31
Budget Start
1992-01-01
Budget End
1992-12-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1992
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of California Irvine
Department
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
161202122
City
Irvine
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
92697

  Publications

Reynolds, Katharine C; Alfano, Candice A (2016) Childhood Bedtime Problems Predict Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms Through Emotional Reactivity. J Pediatr Psychol 41:971-82
Marceau, Kristine; Ram, Nilam; Susman, Elizabeth (2015) Development and Lability in the Parent-Child Relationship During Adolescence: Associations With Pubertal Timing and Tempo. J Res Adolesc 25:474-489
Chan, Tony J H; Gutierrez, Carolina; Ogunseitan, Oladele A (2015) Metallic Burden of Deciduous Teeth and Childhood Behavioral Deficits. Int J Environ Res Public Health 12:6771-87
Crosnoe, Robert; Augustine, Jennifer March; Huston, Aletha C (2012) Children's early child care and their mothers' later involvement with schools. Child Dev 83:758-72
Marceau, Kristine; Ram, Nilam; Houts, Renate M et al. (2011) Individual differences in boys' and girls' timing and tempo of puberty: modeling development with nonlinear growth models. Dev Psychol 47:1389-409
Haltigan, John D; Roisman, Glenn I; Susman, Elizabeth J et al. (2011) Elevated trajectories of externalizing problems are associated with lower awakening cortisol levels in midadolescence. Dev Psychol 47:472-8
Luijk, Maartje P C M; Roisman, Glenn I; Haltigan, John D et al. (2011) Dopaminergic, serotonergic, and oxytonergic candidate genes associated with infant attachment security and disorganization? In search of main and interaction effects. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:1295-307
Dupere, Veronique; Leventhal, Tama; Crosnoe, Robert et al. (2010) Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: the contribution of the home, child care, and school environments. Dev Psychol 46:1227-44
Roisman, Glenn I; Monahan, Kathryn C; Campbell, Susan B et al. (2010) Is adolescence-onset antisocial behavior developmentally normative? Dev Psychopathol 22:295-311
Crosnoe, Robert; Leventhal, Tama; Wirth, R J et al. (2010) Family socioeconomic status and consistent environmental stimulation in early childhood. Child Dev 81:972-87

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