STUDY OF EARLY CHILD CARE

与NICHD-RFA(88-HD-08)的目标一致，“非父母的影响 婴幼儿日托对儿童发展的影响“，这项拟议的研究是一项尝试 评估和评价婴幼儿日托对儿童健康的影响 情感、社交和认知发展。它遵循的是 150名儿童从出生到3岁半的心理和身体发育 几年，考虑和权衡对此的相对贡献 儿童体质特征及其家庭的研究进展 背景，以及他们的日托经历。它试图识别 年第一年产妇就业的条件 婴幼儿的生命有助于或阻碍婴幼儿的发展。要这样做，它 借鉴了广泛的评估方法和措施，包括 在家中和日托环境中的观察、访谈和 向母亲、父亲和其他照顾者发放问卷，以及 半结构化儿童行为的标准评估 实验室的情况。此外，儿童和他们的父母 由训练有素的临床从业者观察和采访。这项研究 也依赖于多元统计分析和独特的优势 一个全国性的合作样本。

In keeping with the aims of NICHD-RFA (88-HD-08), "Effects of Non-Parental Infant Day Care on Child Development," the proposed study is an attempt to assess and evaluate the effects of infant day care on children's emotional, social, and cognitive development. It follows the psychological and physical progress of 150 children from birth to 3 1/2 years, taking into account and weighing the relative contributions to that progress of the children's constitutional characteristics, their family contexts, and their day-care experiences. It attempts to identify the conditions under which maternal employment in the first year of an infant's life helps or hinders the infant's development. To do so, it draws on a wide range of assessment methods and measures, including observations at home and in the day-care setting, interviews and questionnaires given to the mothers, fathers and other caregivers, and standard assessments of the children's behavior in semi-structured laboratory situations. In addition, children and their parents are observed and interviewed by trained clinical practitioners. The study also relies on multivariate statistical analyses and the unique advantage of a national collaborative sample.