Early Child Development and Care

Article	Citations
Needs and readiness to use tele-practice for identification and rehabilitation of children with hearing and speech-language disorders: perceptions of public sector care providers in South India	32
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	19
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	18
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator	14
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	14
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	12
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	11
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	10
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	9
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	9
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	9
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	8
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	8
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	7
Cognitive development of children in vulnerable contexts: the role of psychosocial intervention	7
Sex differences in growth in body mass and psychosocial abilities in children in Head Start	7
The effect of the operating room tour watched with a 3D virtual reality headset on children's fear and anxiety before the surgery – a randomized controlled study	7
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	7
Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	7
Investigating caregiver coaching in an early intervention model for children with hearing loss	7
Reflection on methodologies and prioritizing children’s perspectives on protection needs within informal urban settings	7
Father-infant synchrony and infant vagal tone as an index of emotion regulation: father-infant shared times in Switzerland as moderators	6
The concept of pupils' interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden	6
The impact of the creative leadership qualities of preschool teachers on children’s motivation	6
Creative arts intervention for a firstborn child during the transition to siblinghood: a Chinese case study	6

How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	6
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	6
The well-being of Rohingya children in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh during the Covid 19 pandemic: a qualitative exploration	6
Israeli special education preschool teachers’ job satisfaction: an investigation of the predictive value of professional identity and social support	6
Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	6
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	6
Investigating the relationship levels of fathers with 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers and their attachment status with their babies*	6
Changes in the weight status of school children in Turkey during the COVID-19 lockdown period	5
Paternal cognitions and strategies related to sleep problems of toddlers: a qualitative study from the father’s point of view	5
The relationship between approximate number system and mathematical achievement in 5–6 years children: a parallel mediation analysis	5
Jewish and Arab kindergarten teachers cope with the challenges of encountering the other in Israel: ‘My Diverse Kindergarten’	5
Developmental disparities based on socioeconomic status and sex: an analysis of two large, population-based early childhood development assessments in Uruguay	5
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	5
The pathway from grandparental support with childcare in the early years to child socioemotional outcomes in middle childhood: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study	5
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China	5
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	5
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	4
Associations between of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about children's emotions on preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviours	4
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	4
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	4
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	4
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	4
Developing connections between healthy living and environmental sustainability concepts in Cretan preschool children: a randomized trial	4
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	4
Parental engagement in caregiving activities and its association with socioeconomic and child-rearing environment at home in Vietnam	4
Family process and young children’s social adaptation: conditional process analyses across child-care experiences	4
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	4
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment	4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Children’s beliefs concerning their school performance at the end of the first grade in Finland	4
Exploring preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	3
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review	3
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	3
How does a mother perceive her child's mind? Developmental changes in child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child’s minds	3
Role and trends in voluntary action repetition during infants’ object play	3
Preschool children’s behaviours in competitive games: are these games really harmful to social-emotional development?	3
Sibling struggles: the impact of siblings upon child development in rural China	3
Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	3
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	3
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort	3
Home quarantine duration and Chinese preschoolers’ sleep problems during COVID-19: child screen time as an explanatory mechanism and real interpersonal interactions in family setting as a contextualiz	3
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	3
Difficulties experienced in providing care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit during COVID-19	3
Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) reference values at different stages of pregnancy and their possible associations with major obstetric and demographic characteristics	3
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	3
Quality of interactions in child day-care centres: status quo analysis of interaction designs in daily kindergarten routine	3
Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs	3
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	3
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	3

Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	3
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	3
Raising children: single parents’ parenting styles with children living with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder	3
Caregiver–child relationships in after-school care: the role of gender and the gender match	3
Social experiences, life satisfaction, and social support of immigrant families with young children in a highly urban city	2
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	2
Forest kindergarten: fostering ecological cognition and executive function in preschoolers	2
Theorists and their developmental theories	2
Links between parent–grandparent coparenting, maternal parenting and young children’s executive function in urban China	2
Play tendency and prosociality in early childhood	2
Home or away? The relation between open or closed educational frameworks, parental distress, and child difficulties in the context of armed conflict	2
Is screen exposure beneficial or detrimental to language development in infants and toddlers? A meta-analysis	2
Personal and fictional narratives development in kindergarten children. The effects of an intervention programme	2
Child-specific interaction quality at the first and last year of preschool and its relationship to preschool, child, and family characteristics – an empirical perspective using the inCLASS	2
Can child-friendly tools support young, autistic children to better communicate about their well-being to help inform school provision?	2
Pedagogical practices in ECEC institutions and children’s linguistic, motor, and socio-emotional needs during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a longitudinal multi-perspective study in Germany	2
Programme-based experiences of preschool teachers regarding support of children’s social skills	2
Developmental implications of preschool children’s affective experiences during organized activities	2
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	2
Course of maternal anxiety disorders and their impact on child development in toddlers: a study with young mothers	2
Revisiting Piaget, his contribution to South African early childhood education	2
Examining the role of demographic characteristics, attachment, and language in preschool children’s executive function skills	2
Positive and multifaceted perceptions of Israeli kindergarten teachers contribute to developmental gains of children with developmental delay	2
Preschoolers’ executive function boots the development of empathy: one-year cross-lagged panel analysis	2
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review	2
Doing belonging in early childhood settings in Sweden	2
Mother- child interaction and contextual factors related to COVID-19 pandemic in at-risk infants: cross-sectional study	2
Impact of maternal, paternal mental state talk and quality of parenting on executive function of preschoolers	2
Chinese young children’s work education under the impact of the global pandemic and digitalization	2
Care-giver child interactions and early cognitive development in West and Central Africa	2
Parents’ implicit theories of intelligence and children’s responses to academic challenge	2
Breastfeeding and its relationship with motor development of infants at 3–4 months of age	2
Face-to-face vs. screen-based dialogic reading: a comparative study on language skills in preschool children	2
Differentiation of ‘multilingual children’ in early education through knowledge of family language practices	2
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	2
Behavioral self-regulation development in at-risk families: the role of family resources	1
Cultural literacy of preschool teachers teaching children from different cultures	1
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families	1
How early childhood stress relates to parents’ involvement in children’s daily lives: a longitudinal study	1
Parent-child joint leisure activities during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Temporal, contextual, and relational variability of maternal mind-mindedness and child communicative development in the second year of life	1
Nannies or creche: exploring child carers’ knowledge of the first 1000 days and their perception of the significance of their role as carers	1
The effect of white noise and classical music on pain and physiologic parameters in preterm infants during retinopathy of prematurity examinations: a randomized controlled trial	1
Exploring the cognitive apprenticeship approach in teacher education: a case study of an early childhood practicum experience	1
The efficacy of cognitive–behavioural play therapy and puppet play therapy on bilingual children’s expressive, receptive language disorders	1
Caregiving dispositions as predictors of postpartum depression and mother-baby bonding: parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction as resources	1
Can we guide parents to be playful? The effect of stimulated parental playfulness on children's emotional expression	1
The impact of Couple Relationship Education (CRE) on parents of young children’s couple functioning, family harmony, parenting and their children’s aggressive behaviour	1
A review of Kohlberg’s theory and its applicability in the South African context through the lens of early childhood development and violence	1
Social relationships, interactions and learning in early childhood – theoretical approaches, empirical findings and challenges	1
Investigating children’s mathematical learning during block play: a video observation research	1
Agree or disagree? A comparison of the staff’s and parents’ perceptions of important factors and goal fulfilment for an inclusive preschool in Sweden.	1
An investigation on the effects of block play on the creativity of children	1
The predictive relation of maternal sensitivity over time and child characteristics on early attachment	1
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting	1
Improving early childhood teachers’ emotional skills supporting children’s academic socio-emotional development	1
Family resilience and problem behaviours in Chinese preschool children: the chain mediating role of maternal parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy	1
Developmental outcomes in children treated for focal and non-focal forms of congenital hyperinsulinism	1
Fundamental motor and social skills of children: the role of Brain Gym exercise	1
Variability in infant crawling with typical development and risk of developmental delay	1
Self-regulation and play: how children’s play directed with executive function and emotion regulation	1
Using Theraplay® to support children and families: a scoping review	1
Chinese college teachers’ work-family conflict and their preschool children’s problem behaviors: the mediating effects of parental phubbing and children’s problematic media use	1
Sleep problems, sleep environment and daily routines in Turkish preschoolers	1
The kindergarten in the religious kibbutz – The intersection between religious education and kibbutz education	1
Children born very or extremely preterm transitioning to school: a cross-sectional study examining predictors of school readiness, school adjustment, and support needs	1
Bioecological factors associated with gross motor skills of preschool children	1
Children’s drawings of student-teacher relationship quality: examining change over the first year of school.	1
Children’s response accuracy: examining the effect of activity engagement, age, language proficiency, and time elapse	1
The more familiar the others, the higher the morality: children’s preference for familiar others in moral expectations early appears in the negative moral context	1
‘I’m no longer myself anymore’: burnout and coping of educators-caregivers in day-care centres in Israel	1
Screen time and behavioural problems among preschool children: unveiling the mediating effect of sleep quality	1
What gender are the animal characters in the illustrations? Gender stereotyping by children in early childhood	1
Digital learning in pandemic times: assessing academic readiness among refugee children in Malaysia	1
Relations between teacher–child interaction quality and children’s playfulness	1
Effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on maternal adaptation and newborn perception in the postpartum period	1
The effectiveness of swaddling and maternal holding applied during heel blood collection on pain level of healthy term newborns; randomized controlled trial	1
The interrelation between children’s play behaviour, temperament, and special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood special education (ECSE)	1
Preschool screen-media usage predicts mental imagery two years later	1
Examining the relation between adult scaffolding of make-believe play and children’s executive functions: an observational study conducted in a natural educational setting	1

Education versus care for infants and toddlers: the Australian early childhood challenge	1
‘Is it a boy or a girl who is embarrassed?’: preschool children's gendered justification of emotions	1
‘Let them play’ the effect of active play on motor proficiency and social maturity of children	1
Children’s everyday manifestations of grief and grieving in early childhood education and care	1
Mothers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards infant crying: predicting postpartum depressive symptoms	1
Maternal responsive behaviours and child language outcomes in a cohort of mothers and children facing adversity	1
Social exclusion, and mistrust of state-led early childhood care and education policies: a qualitative case study in the estate sector of Sri Lanka	1
The effect of sensorimotor interventions on feeding readiness and oral feeding success in preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial	1
The relationship between coming to school hungry and child development: analysis of the Australian Early Development Census	1
Integrating a hybrid mode into kindergarten STEM education: its impact on young children’s critical thinking skills during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Children’s knowledge construction of computational thinking in a play-based classroom	1
The metamorphosis of early childhood theorists and pioneers	1
Association among motor skills and fluid intelligence in children aged from 5 to 7 years with different sports skill learning	1
Effect of using white noise, embracing and facilitated tucking on pain during heel lance blood sampling in newborns	1
Outdoor play activities and outdoor environment of early childhood education in Turkey: a qualitative meta-synthesis	1
Making connections between learning centres and children’s play lives during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Examining the longitudinal association between toddlers’ early shyness and their well-being during their first year in Norwegian early childhood education and care	1
Supporting young children’s social emotional competence in the Republic of Georgia: a focus group study	1
Effects of swimming on the development of motor skill competency in Chinese preschool children	1