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Direct linkZhang, Zhiguang; Kuzik, Nicholas; Adamo, Kristi B.; Ogden, Nancy; Goldfield, Gary S.; Okely, Anthony D.; Crozier, Mitchell; Hunter, Stephen; Predy, Madison; Carson, Valerie – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Child care centers are important for children's behaviors. Aims: To examine the cross-sectional associations between child care environmental characteristics and physical activity and sedentary time in children. Methods: Participants were 124 toddlers and 118 preschoolers from 19 centers in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Care, Educational Environment, Rating Scales
Ackerman, Debra J. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
Policymakers, child care providers, and parents face tradeoffs in determining how much to spend on child care, including how many hours to purchase, and the features of programs that might influence quality. Given these tradeoffs, it is useful to understand what constitutes quality, the cost of care features associated with quality, the effects of…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, At Risk Persons
Bernier, Annie; McMahon, Catherine A.; Perrier, Rachel – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study aimed to test a 5-wave sequential mediation model linking maternal mind-mindedness during infancy to children's school readiness in kindergarten through a serial mediation involving child language and effortful control in toddlerhood and the preschool years. Among a sample of 204 mother-child dyads, we assessed maternal mind-mindedness…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language, Toddlers
Lemay, Lise; Bigras, Nathalie; Bouchard, Caroline – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
This study explored whether the relationships between specific features of child care quality and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in 24-month-old children are moderated by gender and temperament. Questionnaires were used to record children's gender and measure their temperament. Child care quality was observed with the "Échelles…
Descriptors: Child Care, Infants, Toddlers, Correlation
Goelman, Hillel; Forer, Barry; Kershaw, Paul; Doherty, Gillian; Lero, Donna; LaGrange, Annette – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
This paper reports on the design, methodology, and results of a study of quality in 326 classrooms in 239 Canadian child care centers. This study, the largest and most extensive ever undertaken in Canada, used the Caregiver Interaction Scale (CIS) to rate the adult-child interactions in the classrooms and the Infant-Toddler Environment Rating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Wages, Questionnaires, Public Policy
Whitehead, Judith, Ed. – 2000
Serving as a vehicle for raising the profile of and thereby gaining recognition for the important research and development work being conducted in Canada in support of children and families, the "Research Connections Canada" series compiles research and/or development papers as well as background papers, analytical literature reviews,…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Child Care Effects, Early Experience
Borge, Anne I. H.; Rutter, Michael; Cote, Sylvana; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Some research findings have suggested that group day-care may be associated with an increased risk for physical aggression. Methods: Cross-sectional maternal questionnaire data from a representative sample of 3431 Canadian 2- to 3-year-olds were used to compare rates of physical aggression shown by children looked after by their own…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Aggression, Mothers, Child Care
