The Effect of Early Non-Parental Childcare during Infancy on the Social-Emotional Development of Dutch Toddlers: The Role of Child Temperament and Parenting ...

In the past decades, an increasing number of Dutch parents made use of early non-parental child care (ENPCC), where babies and young children are systematically cared for by caregivers other than their parents (NJI, 2022). In what way ENPCC impacts the social-emotional development of children is the topic of an ongoing societal and scientific debate (Arace et al., 2021). Social-emotional development (SED) comprises social competence as well as (the absence of) internalizing and externalizing problems (Linberg et al., 2020). Currently, research findings on the effects of ENPCC on SED are diverg... Mehr ...