Are insecure-avoidant infants with extensive day-care experience less stressed by and more independent in the Strange Situation
Belsky, Jay, 1991
Child Development, 62(3), 567-571
A study of the relationship between child reactions to stressful situations and the amount of non-parental child care experienced by the child in his or her first year, in a sample of 20 insecure-avoidant infants
Reports & Papers
Are there long-term effects of early child care?
Belsky, Jay, March/April 2007
Child Development, 78(2), 681-701
An analysis of the links between early child care and school-age children's development, socioemotional functioning, and academic performance, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Reports & Papers
Classroom composition, childcare history and social development: Are childcare effects disappearing or spreading?
Belsky, Jay, February 2009
Social Development, 18(1), 230-238
A summary of evidence from a study of the association between the aggregate child care experiences of classrooms of children and the externalization of problem behaviors in the primary school years
Other
Differential susceptibility to long-term effects of quality of child care on externalizing behavior in adolescence?
Belsky, Jay, January, 2012
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(1), 2-10
An examination of the moderating influence of temperament in infancy on the relationship between child care quality and problem behavior in 15-year-old adolescents, based on data from 842 participants in the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD)
Reports & Papers
Do time in child care and peer group exposure predict poor socioemotional adjustment in Norway?
Solheim, Elisabet, 2013
Child Development, , 1-15
A study of the relationship between socioemotional functioning and exposure to non-parental child care and large peer groups during the first 4.5 years of life, based on data from 935 young children with an average age of 55 months from Trondheim, Norway
Reports & Papers
Early and extensive maternal employment and young children's socioemotional development: Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Belsky, Jay, 1991
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53(4), 1083-1098
A study of the influence of maternal employment on the socioemotional development of four to six year old children whose mothers were studied as part of the NSLY
Reports & Papers
Emanuel Miller Lecture: Developmental risks (still) associated with early child care
Belsky, Jay, 2001
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(7), 845-859
A review of evidence on the effects of timing and quantity of child care on attachment and socioemotional development.
Other
Nonmaternal care in the first year of life and the security of infant-parent attachment
Belsky, Jay, 1993
In R. A. Pierce & M. A. Black (Eds.), Life-span development: A diversity reader (pp. 17-30). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing
A study of whether extensive nonmaternal care in the first year is associated with heightened risk of insecure infant-parent attachment
Reports & Papers
Parental and nonparental child care and children's socioemotional development: A decade in review
Belsky, Jay, 1990
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 52(4), 885-903
A review of literature from the 1980s on the influence of parent-child interaction, parent characteristics and the links between parent-child relationships or peer relationships on the socioemotional development of infants, preschool and school aged children, including a review of the six waves of research on the outcomes of non-parental care
Reports & Papers
Quantity counts: Amount of child care and children's socioemotional development
Belsky, Jay, 2002
Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 23(3), 167-170
A commentary on findings from the Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care about the effects of the quantity of nonmaternal care on child behavioral outcomes.
Other
Quantity of nonmaternal care and boys' problem behavior/adjustment at ages 3 and 5: Exploring the mediating role of parenting
Belsky, Jay, 1999
Psychiatry, 62(1), 1-20
A study of the social and cognitive effect of nonmaternal care and the mediating effect of parenting on nonmaternal care for children ages three to five
Reports & Papers
Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior
McCartney, Kathleen, January 2010
Developmental Psychology, 46(1), 1-17
An examination, through a series of longitudinal analyses, of the relationship between child care hours and externalizing behavior, moderated by child care quality and portion of time with a large group of peers, from 1,364 family participants in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Reports & Papers