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ArticleChild development2020

Infant and Toddler Child-Care Quality and Stability in Relation to Proximal and Distal Academic and Social Outcomes.

Mary E Bratsch-Hines, Robert Carr, Eleni Zgourou, Lynne Vernon-Feagans, Michael Willoughby

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Article in Child development, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mary E Bratsch-HinesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0001-5962-1117
Robert CarrDuke University.ORCID 0000-0003-4125-1917
Eleni ZgourouUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0003-4604-5573
Lynne Vernon-FeagansUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0001-6902-0526
Michael WilloughbyRTI International.ORCID 0000-0002-8470-3533
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USDuke University · USRTI International · US

Funding

Temperment, Psychobiological, and Cognitive PredictorsP01HD039667 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI VERNON-FEAGANS, LYNNE · 2002 to 2011
$29.1M
An Epidemiological and Longitudinal Study of Rural Child Literacy TrajectoriesR01HD080786 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SEIFER, RONALD · 2014 to 2018
$2.9M
Child Care Instability and Longitudinal Outcomes for Rural Low-Income ChildrenR03HD087534 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BRATSCH-HINES, MARY · 2017 to 2018
$156k
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1PO1HD39667Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 2PO1HD039667Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01HD080786NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD039667NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD080786NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD087534
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study considered the quality and stability of infant and toddler nonparental child care from 6 to 36 months in relation to language, social, and academic skills measured proximally at 36 months and distally at kindergarten. Quality was measured separately as caregiver-child verbal interactions and caregiver sensitivity, and stability was measured as having fewer sequential child-care caregivers. This longitudinal examination involved a subsample (N = 1,055) from the Family Life Project, a representative sample of families living in rural counties in the United States. Structural equation modeling revealed that children who experienced more positive caregiver-child verbal interactions had higher 36-month language skills, which indirectly led to higher kindergarten academic and social skills. Children who experienced more caregiver stability had higher kindergarten social skills.

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Academic SuccessChild CareSocial SkillsAdultCaregiversChildChild DevelopmentChild, PreschoolEducational StatusFamilyFemaleHumansInfantLanguage DevelopmentLongitudinal StudiesMale

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PMID32662886
PMCPMC7793551
OpenAlexW3043020297

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