Abstract
With increasing numbers of women joining the evening/nighttime workforce, there is a need for quality childcare during these hours. This project, conducted in Japan, sought to compare the effects of child day care, child evening care, and child night care on the development and adaptation of young children. Caregivers completed a survey on the childrearing environment at home, their feelings of self-efficacy, and the presence of support for childcare. Childcare professionals evaluated the development of children. The results of the discriminant analysis indicate that factors in the home environment, not type of center-based care, explained developmental variance.
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Anme, T., Segal, U.A. Center-Based Evening Child Care: Implications for Young Children's Development. Early Childhood Education Journal 30, 137–143 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022005703976
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