The Context of Infant Attachment in Family Child Care

Elicker, James; Fortner‐Wood, Cheryl; Noppe, Illene C.

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“…In child care settings, however, this process could even be amplified by gender-based subgroup structures. Other researchers have shown that children from more socioeconomically advantaged families display more responsive and less conflicted social behaviors and thus adjust to relationships with care providers more easily than less advantaged children do (e.g., Elicker, Fortner-Wood, & Noppe, 1999). In addition, children might need sufficient opportunities to develop focused and specific relationships with care providers and thus form secure relation-ships more readily if they start child care earlier and/or have been able to consolidate relationships for a longer time (e.g., Elicker et al, 1999;Matheson, 1992).…”

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“…Other researchers have shown that children from more socioeconomically advantaged families display more responsive and less conflicted social behaviors and thus adjust to relationships with care providers more easily than less advantaged children do (e.g., Elicker, Fortner-Wood, & Noppe, 1999). In addition, children might need sufficient opportunities to develop focused and specific relationships with care providers and thus form secure relation-ships more readily if they start child care earlier and/or have been able to consolidate relationships for a longer time (e.g., Elicker et al, 1999;Matheson, 1992). We thus expected to find in the meta-analysis that secure child -care provider attachments would be more common if children were younger, were girls, had more advantaged socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, and/or were enrolled in child care earlier and for longer before assessment.…”

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Security of Children's Relationships With Nonparental Care Providers: A Meta‐Analysis

Pinquart²,

2006

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Meta-analysis aggregated results of 40 investigations involving 2,867 children who averaged 29.6 (SD = 8.6) months of age when their attachments to care providers were assessed using either the Strange Situation (SS) or the Attachment Q-Set (AQS). As opposed to parents, secure attachments to nonparental care providers were less likely (using SS) or equally likely (using AQS), respectively. Secure child-care provider attachments were more likely in home- than center-based care, when the children were assessed longer after enrollment, and when they were girls. Whereas care providers' sensitivity to individual children predicted attachment security only in the small groups that characterize home-based settings, group-related sensitivity was a reliable predictor of secure child-care provider attachment, especially in child care centers.

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Security of Children's Relationships With Nonparental Care Providers: A Meta‐Analysis

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2006

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“…In several studies exploring the sensitivity hypothesis in a day care context (Elicker et al, 1999;Howes & Hamilton, 1992;Howes & Smith, 1995), it was not the quality but rather the frequency of positive caregiving that was related to more secure attachment relationships. Howes and colleagues found that involvement of the caregiver but not the sensitivity scale was related to more secure child-professional caregiver attachment relationships (Howes & Hamilton, 1992;Howes & Smith, 1995).…”

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Children's Attachment Relationships with Day Care Caregivers: Associations with Positive Caregiving and the Child's Temperament

2008

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In this study, children's attachment relationships with their professional caregivers in center day care were observed for 48 children. We explored whether more positive caregiving was associated with a more secure attachment relationship and whether this association was stronger for more temperamentally irritable children compared to less irritable children. Trained observers coded the attachment relationship in the day care setting using the attachment Q‐sort. The observational record of the caregiving environment was used to assess children's individual experience of positive caregiver–child interaction in the classroom. When caregivers showed more frequent positive caregiving behavior, children showed more secure attachment behavior toward their primary professional caregiver. Temperament was not related to attachment security, nor did it serve as a moderator. Consequently, no support for Belsky's susceptibility hypothesis was found.

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“…For example, sensitive responsive caregiving and interactive involvement have been linked with positive integration into the peer group (Kryzer et al, 2007) and found to be a direct predictor of infant attachment security (Elicker et al, 1999), which has a direct link with more socially competent behaviours with peers (Howes, 1997). Taken together, the studies of quality suggest the importance of the size and age composition of the group; the education and training of educators; and the types of interactions between educators and infants in FDC.…”

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Infants in Family Day Care: Stories of Smooth and Striated Space

Stratigos

Sumsion

Bradley

2013

Global Studies of Childhood

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Family day care (FDC) is child care for a small group of children that occurs in the educator's home. Despite the important role it plays in the international early childhood education and care landscape, particularly for children under three years of age, FDC is currently under-researched. This article examines research about infants (under 19 months of age) in FDC from the past 20 years, using Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and striated space. These concepts open possibilities for moving beyond well-worn binaries such as qualitative/quantitative, researcher/researched, adult/infant and instead consider the methodological principles and theoretical perspectives that influence why particular methods are chosen, how they are used, and the research stories that result. The authors argue that the emerging FDC research space may be conceptualised as a smooth space, with greater powers of deterritorialisation than the striated, affording lines of flight towards new understandings about the lives of infants in FDC.

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The Context of Infant Attachment in Family Child Care

Cited by 50 publications

References 33 publications

Security of Children's Relationships With Nonparental Care Providers: A Meta‐Analysis

Security of Children's Relationships With Nonparental Care Providers: A Meta‐Analysis

Children's Attachment Relationships with Day Care Caregivers: Associations with Positive Caregiving and the Child's Temperament

Infants in Family Day Care: Stories of Smooth and Striated Space

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