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Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment
This study investigates toddlers’ initial reaction to day care entry and their behaviour change over the first few months in care. One hundred and four toddlers (10–33 months of age) in Viennese childcare centres participated in the study. One-hour video observations were carried out at 3 time point...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22721743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.02.007 |
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author | Datler, Wilfried Ereky-Stevens, Katharina Hover-Reisner, Nina Malmberg, Lars-Erik |
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description | This study investigates toddlers’ initial reaction to day care entry and their behaviour change over the first few months in care. One hundred and four toddlers (10–33 months of age) in Viennese childcare centres participated in the study. One-hour video observations were carried out at 3 time points during the first 4 months in the setting and coded into a total of 36 5-min observation segments. Multilevel models (observation segments nested within children) with an autoregressive error structure fitted data well. Two weeks after entry into care, toddlers’ levels of affect and interaction were low. Overall, changes in all areas of observed behaviour were less than expected. There were considerable individual differences in change over time, mostly unrelated to child characteristics. Significant associations between children's positive affect, their dynamic interactions and their explorative and investigative interest were found. |
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spelling | pubmed-34257702012-09-05 Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment Datler, Wilfried Ereky-Stevens, Katharina Hover-Reisner, Nina Malmberg, Lars-Erik Infant Behav Dev Article This study investigates toddlers’ initial reaction to day care entry and their behaviour change over the first few months in care. One hundred and four toddlers (10–33 months of age) in Viennese childcare centres participated in the study. One-hour video observations were carried out at 3 time points during the first 4 months in the setting and coded into a total of 36 5-min observation segments. Multilevel models (observation segments nested within children) with an autoregressive error structure fitted data well. Two weeks after entry into care, toddlers’ levels of affect and interaction were low. Overall, changes in all areas of observed behaviour were less than expected. There were considerable individual differences in change over time, mostly unrelated to child characteristics. Significant associations between children's positive affect, their dynamic interactions and their explorative and investigative interest were found. Ablex 2012-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3425770/ /pubmed/22721743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.02.007 Text en © 2012 Elsevier Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Open Access under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) license |
spellingShingle | Article Datler, Wilfried Ereky-Stevens, Katharina Hover-Reisner, Nina Malmberg, Lars-Erik Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment |
title | Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment |
title_full | Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment |
title_fullStr | Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment |
title_short | Toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: Settling into a new care environment |
title_sort | toddlers’ transition to out-of-home day care: settling into a new care environment |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22721743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.02.007 |
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