The effects of non-parental care and the quality of the child care setting on the young child's development: A swiss study

Karmaniola, Athanassia; Pierrehumbert, Blaise; Ramstein, Tatjana

doi:10.1080/13502939485207521

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“…Data concerning the 0-2 years period have already been reported (Pierrehumbert, Frascarolo, Bettschart, Plancherel, & Melhuish, 1991), as well as preliminary results on the 0-5 years (Karmaniola, Pierrehumbert, & Ramstein, 1994).…”

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Child care in the preschool years: Attachment, behaviour problems and cognitive development

Pierrehumbert¹,

Ramstein²,

Karmaniola³

et al. 1996

Eur J Psychol Educ

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The possible implications ofthe experience ofnon parental care on cognitive development and on behaviour problems are considered in interaction with individual and contextual variables. A sample of 47 Swiss children who experienced varying kinds of care arrangements were studied longitudinally between 1 and 5 years ofage. The effects of the experience of care were related to mothers' reports of behavioral problems (CBCL, with subscales of internalizing and of externalizing problems) at age 5, and to cognitive developmental quotients (at 1, 2 and 5 years). Several variables were considered for their potential interaction with the experience of care, such as the pattern of attachment to the mother (observed at 21 months of age in the "Strange Situation "}, characteristics ofthe experience ofcare (duration and type of care), its quality (relationship with non parental caregivers), the socio-economic status ofthe family, etc. The effect ofnon parental care on behaviour problems (5 years) happened to be mediated by the the pattern of attachment to the mother: insecurely attached children had some risk to be reported as having externalizingproblems, but this didn't occur when they had an extended experience of non parental care, and when non parental care was mainly family-based. The effect of non parental care on cognitive development was mediated by the quality of care: children with a positive contact with the caregivers had greater cognitive gains between 2 and 5 years; the relationship with the caregivers itself was influenced by the quality of the relationship with the mother. The limited size and origin of the sample restricts generalization, however these data might contribute to the notion that non parental care can have varying effects depending of the type of care, the quality of the relation with the caregivers, the age and personal traits ofthe child.

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