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    Do time in child care and peer group exposure predict poor socioemotional adjustment in Norway?

    Solheim, E. and Wichstrøm, L. and Belsky, Jay and Berg-Nielsen, T.S. (2013) Do time in child care and peer group exposure predict poor socioemotional adjustment in Norway? Child Development 84 (5), pp. 1701-1715. ISSN 0009-3920.

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    Abstract

    Extensive exposure to nonparental child care during the first 4.5 years of life has been demonstrated in some American studies to negatively affect children's socioemotional functioning. Data from 935 preschool children who averaged 54.9 (SD = 3.0) months of age, from Trondheim, Norway were used to examine whether such negative effects, would emerge in Norway, a country with a different child-care system. The children's externalizing problems and social competence were unrelated to their child-care experience. More time spent in child care during the first 4.5 years of life and experiencing peer groups of < 16 or > 18 children predicted greater caregiver–child conflict. The effect sizes were small. The results are discussed in terms of cross-national child-care differences.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2013 08:27
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:05
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7352

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