TY - JOUR
T1 - Household chaos and children's cognitive and socio-emotional development in early childhood
T2 - Does childcare play a buffering role?
AU - The Family Life Project Key Investigators
AU - The Family Life Project Key Investigators
AU - Berry, Daniel
AU - Blair, Clancy
AU - Willoughby, Michael
AU - Garrett-Peters, Patricia
AU - Vernon-Feagans, Lynne
AU - Mills-Koonce, W. Roger
AU - Cox, Martha
AU - Burchinal, Peg
AU - Burton, Linda
AU - Crnic, Keith
AU - Crouter, Ann
AU - Greenberg, Mark
AU - Lanza, Stephanie
AU - Werner, Emily
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Evidence suggests that household chaos is associated with less optimal child outcomes. Yet, there is an increasing indication that children's experiences in childcare may buffer them against the detrimental effects of such environments. Our study aims were to test: (1) whether children's experiences in childcare mitigated relations between household chaos and children's cognitive and social development, and (2) whether these (conditional) chaos effects were mediated by links between chaos and executive functioning. Using data from The Family Life Project (n = 1235)-a population-based sample of families from low-income, rural contexts-our findings indicated that household disorganization in early childhood was predictive of worse cognitive and social outcomes at approximately age five. However, these relations were substantially attenuated for children attending greater childcare hours. Subsequent models indicated that the conditional associations between household disorganization and less optimal outcomes at age five were mediated by conditional links between disorganization and less optimal executive functioning.
AB - Evidence suggests that household chaos is associated with less optimal child outcomes. Yet, there is an increasing indication that children's experiences in childcare may buffer them against the detrimental effects of such environments. Our study aims were to test: (1) whether children's experiences in childcare mitigated relations between household chaos and children's cognitive and social development, and (2) whether these (conditional) chaos effects were mediated by links between chaos and executive functioning. Using data from The Family Life Project (n = 1235)-a population-based sample of families from low-income, rural contexts-our findings indicated that household disorganization in early childhood was predictive of worse cognitive and social outcomes at approximately age five. However, these relations were substantially attenuated for children attending greater childcare hours. Subsequent models indicated that the conditional associations between household disorganization and less optimal outcomes at age five were mediated by conditional links between disorganization and less optimal executive functioning.
KW - Childcare
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Executive function
KW - Household chaos
KW - Social development
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.09.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945535118
SN - 0885-2006
VL - 34
SP - 115
EP - 127
JO - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
ER -