Quality of Childcare Influences Children's Attentiveness and Emotional Regulation at School Entry

Gialamas, Angela; Sawyer, Alyssa; Mittinty, Murthy; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Sawyer, Michael; Lynch, John

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.06.011

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“…Marginal effects were also found for the association between educator-child relationships and the home learning environment, with self-regulatory growth. The finding regarding importance of educator-child relationship in terms of children's early self-regulation development reflects other similar findings in both Australia (61) and…”

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Proximal and distal predictors of self-regulatory growth in children aged 4 to 7 years

Williams

Howard

2020

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Background Growth in early self-regulation skills has been linked to positive health, wellbeing, and achievement trajectories across the lifespan. While individual studies have documented specific influences on self-regulation competencies in early childhood, few have modelled a comprehensive range of predictors of self-regulation growth across health, development, and environment simultaneously. This study aimed to examine the concurrent associations among a range of proximal and distal influences on growth in children’s self-regulation skills over 2 years from age 4-5 years.Methods Data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (N= 4983) were used in a structural equation model, predicting a multi-source composite measure of self-regulation at each of 4-5 years and 6-7 years. By controlling for earlier self-regulation and covariates, the model examined the relative contributions of a comprehensive range of variables to self-regulation growth including health, development, educational, home environment, time-use, and neighbourhood characteristics. Results The significant predictors of children’s self-regulation growth across 4 to 7 years were fewer behavioural sleep problems, higher gross motor and pre-academic skills, lower levels of maternal and paternal angry parenting, and lower levels of financial hardship. There were also marginal effects for high-quality home learning environments and child-educator relationships.Conclusion Findings suggest that if we are to successfully grow children’s self-regulation skills, interventionists would do well to operate not only on children’s current capacities but also key aspects of their surrounding context.

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Proximal and distal predictors of self-regulatory growth in children aged 4 to 7 years

Williams

Howard

2020

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“…33 We use this variable as both a continuous scale from 1 (no problem) to 4 (severe problem) and also dichotomize the variable into no/mild (no sleep problem) versus moderate/severe (sleep problem) to examine prevalence of sleep problems across groups, as per previous research. 36,37 Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) status at 8 to 9 years was measured in 2 ways. 35 Items differed across waves to account for the developmental stages of the children.…”

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Sleep and Self-Regulation from Birth to 7 Years

Williams

Sciberras

2016

Journal of Developmental &Amp; Behavioral Pediatrics

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“…Previous studies have found these items to be useful in measuring selfregulation across time ( Gialamas et al, 2014and Williams et al, 2013.…”

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Associations between early shared music activities in the home and later child outcomes: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Williams

Barrett

Welch

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Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Quality of Childcare Influences Children's Attentiveness and Emotional Regulation at School Entry

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Proximal and distal predictors of self-regulatory growth in children aged 4 to 7 years

Proximal and distal predictors of self-regulatory growth in children aged 4 to 7 years

Sleep and Self-Regulation from Birth to 7 Years

Associations between early shared music activities in the home and later child outcomes: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

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