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EJ534662 PS525828
Title: Characteristics of Infant Child Care: Factors Contributing to Positive Caregiving.Author(s): NICHD Early Child Care Research Network
Source: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, v11 n3 p269-306 Sep 1996
Publication Date: 1996
ISSN: 0885-2006
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1997
Assessed settings
and caregiver-infant interaction in five types of nonmaternal child
care: day care centers; child care homes; in-home sitters; grandparents;
and fathers. Found that small group sizes, low child-adult ratios,
caregivers' nonauthoritarian child-rearing beliefs, and safe, clean,
and stimulating physical environments were associated with positive
caregiving regardless of setting. (KDFB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship; Child Caregivers; Child
Rearing; *Context Effect; *Day Care; Day Care Centers; Environment;
*Family Day Care; *Fathers; *Grandparents; *Infants; Parent Attitudes;
Physical Environment; Teacher Attitudes
Identifiers: Babysitters; Caregiver Attitudes; Caregiver Child Ratio;
Group Size
