Quebec's Child Care Services: What Are the Mechanisms Influencing Children's Behaviors Across Quantity, Type, and Quality of Care Experienced?

• Published in: Journal of research in childhood education Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 147 - 172
• Main Authors: Lemay, Lise, Bigras, Nathalie, Bouchard, Caroline
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Olney Routledge 03.04.2015; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Attribution Theory; Behavior; Behavior Rating Scales; Check Lists; Child Behavior; Child Behavior Checklist; Child Care; child care center; Child Care Centers; child care services; Child development; Early childhood education; Educational Quality; externalizing behaviors; Foreign Countries; home child care; Hypothesis Testing; Influences; Institutional Characteristics; internalizing behaviors; Likert Scales; Mediation Theory; Observation; Parent Surveys; Preschool Children; Preschool Evaluation; quality; Quality of care; quantity; Quebec; Regression (Statistics); Social services; Time Perspective; Canada; Quebec Canada

The objective of this study was to examine how quantity, type, and quality of care interact in predicting externalizing and internalizing behaviors of 36-month-old children attending Quebec's educational child care from their first years of life. To do so, the authors examined two hypothesized...