Early Child Development and Care

Article	Citations
Young children’s emotional stress reactions during the COVID-19 outbreak and their associations with parental emotion regulation and parental playfulness	42
The psychosocial development theory of Erik Erikson: critical overview	31
Family Environment In Rural China And The Link With Early Childhood Development	23
An investigation into children's agency: children's initiatives and practitioners’ responses in Finnish early childhood education	20
Neoliberalism and sociocultural specificities: a discourse analysis of early childhood curriculum policies in Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore	18
Digital parenting during the COVID-19 lockdowns: how Chinese parents viewed and mediated young children’s digital use	15
The impact of music training on inhibition control, phonological processing, and motor skills in kindergarteners: a randomized control trial	15
It’s like a fruit on a tree: young Maltese children’s understanding of the environment	12
Rough-and-tumble play and the regulation of aggression in preschoolers	11
The challenge of ensuring effective early years music education by non-specialists	11
Everyday environments and activities of children and teachers in Swedish preschools	10
Children’s creative thinking abilities and social orientations in Finnish early childhood education and care	10
Vygotsky’s theory in-play: early childhood education	10
A longitudinal perspective on frequency of parent–child activities and social–emotional development	10
The participation of children in caregiving of their siblings with special needs and peer relationship in rural Turkey	9
Parenting style and prosocial behaviour among Chinese Preschool children: A moderation model	9
Effects of analogy learning on locomotor skills and balance of preschool children	8
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	8
Montessori as an alternative early childhood education	8
The impact of children’s socioemotional development on parenting styles: the moderating effect of social withdrawal	7
Effects of oculomotor rehabilitation on the cognitive performance of dyslexic children with concurrent eye movement abnormalities	7
Parent discipline and pre-schoolers’ social skills	7
Influence of the home affordances on motor skills in 3- to 18-month-old Iranian children	7
The relation between parental involvement and school readiness: the mediating role of preschoolers’ self-regulation skills	7
Convergence among imagination, social-emotional learning and media literacy: an integrative literature review	7

Children with siblings differ from only children in their sharing behaviour	7
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	7
The promise and the practice of early childhood educare in the writings of Urie Bronfenbrenner	7
Children’s negative experiences as a part of quality evaluation in early childhood education and care	7
Effect of age-appropriate play on promoting motor development of preschool children	7
Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) reference values at different stages of pregnancy and their possible associations with major obstetric and demographic characteristics	6
Do educators matter? Associations between caregivers’ mentalization and preschoolers’ attachment, social emotional development and theory of mind	6
Vocabulary enrichment using an E-book with and without kindergarten teacher’s support among LSES children	6
Math achievement outcomes associated with Montessori education	6
Home environment and its contribution to early childhood regulatory capabilities	6
The implementation of positive pedagogy in Finnish early childhood education and care: a quantitative survey of its practical elements	6
Pestalozzi and pedagogies of love: pathways to educational reform	6
Sex and age-related differences in inhibitory control in typically developing children	6
Fine motor, gross motor, and social independence skills among stunted and non-stunted children	6
Does an integrated, wrap-around school and community service model in an early learning setting improve academic outcomes for children from low socioeconomic backgrounds?	6
Supporting young Spanish speaking English learners through teacher scaffolding and reciprocal peer tutoring	6
Children’s family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties	6
Is the digitalization of play technological mutation or digital evolution?	6
Outdoor play activities and outdoor environment of early childhood education in Turkey: a qualitative meta-synthesis	5
Developmental change in attachment objects during childhood	5
The effect of preschool children’s motor skills on self-care skills	5
Examining the predictive effect of teacher–child relationship on young children’s self-perception	5
The effectiveness of swaddling and maternal holding applied during heel blood collection on pain level of healthy term newborns; randomized controlled trial	5
Relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, with generalized anxiety as mediator	5
Joy as a practice: performing joy in children’s everyday relations in early childhood education settings	5
Everyday practices in Swedish school-age educare centres: a reproduction of subordination and difficulty in fulfilling their mission	5
Early-childhood teachers’ emotion socialization practices: a multi-method study	5
Doing belonging in early childhood settings in Sweden	5
A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers	5
Developing connections between healthy living and environmental sustainability concepts in Cretan preschool children: a randomized trial	5
Preschoolers’ social skills and behaviour problems at home: mothers and fathers’ (dis)agreement	5
Links between parent–grandparent coparenting, maternal parenting and young children’s executive function in urban China	5
The physical literacy and children with autism	5
Preschool children’s perceptions on human–environment relationship: follow-up research	5
Children on the borders between institution, home and leisure: space to fend for yourself when leaving the school-age educare centre	5
‘Your baby’s life depends on those first 1000 days’: community health workers’ perspectives of the first 1000 days of life	4
Friedrich Froebel: a path least trodden	4
Fundamental motor and social skills of children: the role of Brain Gym exercise	4
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	4
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	4
Cognitive development among low birthweight (LBW) children at 4-year-old in relation to socio-demographic variables and chronic morbidities	4
Quality of early childcare in the home and cognitive development at age 5: results from the South African birth to Twenty Plus cohort study	4
Cool and hot self-regulation predict early achievement in Chinese pre-schoolers	4
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	4
What makes a child musical? conceptions of musical ability in childhood	4
Becoming a girl and boy: preschool children’s construction of gender roles in the community and nursery	4
Cross-lagged effects of self-regulation skills and behaviour problems in the transition from preschool to elementary school	4
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	4
Impact of Carnatic music training on the mathematical ability of children	4
Relationship between SES and preschoolers’ sociality: the mediating effect of household screen media experience	3

Mouthing and fingering supports vocal behaviors development	3
How toddlers new to child care become members of a classroom community	3
Teacher perceptions of externalizing behaviour subtypes in preschool: considering racial factors	3
Long-term effects of maternal postpartum depression on mothers’ and fathers’ parenting stress	3
Associations of muscular fitness and body composition in children	3
How do children build knowledge in early childhood education? Susan Isaacs, Young Children Are Researchers and what happens next	3
Toddlers asthe one-caring: co-authoring play narratives and identities of care	3
Home environment and social skills of Japanese preschool children pre- and post-COVID-19	3
Receptive vocabulary of preschool children with migration backgrounds: the effect of home literacy activities	3
The relationship between parents’ attachment to their parents and children's creatives	3
The moderating effects of a child's self-regulation skills in the relationship between a child’s temperament and the behaviour of the parents	3
Developmental changes in toy preferences during pretend play in toddlerhood	3
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	3
Developmental disparities based on socioeconomic status and sex: an analysis of two large, population-based early childhood development assessments in Uruguay	3
Emotional and behavioural difficulties and quality of life of preterm children at 2 years regarding parental mental health	3
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	3
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	3
Predicting Toddlers’ Problematic Behaviors: the role of poverty, parenting, and childcare	3
How maternal traumatic childhood experiences affect adolescent and young mother–infant interaction at 3 months	3
Co-development of emotion regulation: shifting from self-focused to child-focused perezhivanie in everyday parent-toddler dramatic collisions	3
Improvements in babies’ neuropsychomotor development after family-centered Kids Intervention Therapy – Aquatic Environment (KITE): biopsychosocial approach	3
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	3
Vulnerable preschoolers mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina: A cross-sectional study	3
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	3
Breastfeeding motivation in mothers of excessive crying infants: A correlation study	3
The impact of B. F. Skinner’s science of operant learning on early childhood research, theory, treatment, and care	3
Presence of parent, gender and emotional valence influences preschoolers' PFC processing of video stimuli	3
Participation in play activities in the children’s peer culture	3
Teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and its effects on social and language development	3
Reflection on methodologies and prioritizing children’s perspectives on protection needs within informal urban settings	3
An investigation on the effects of block play on the creativity of children	3
The effect of visual illusion on performance and quiet eye in autistic children	3
Contemporary principles to lead understandings of children’s learning: synthesizing Vygotsky, Rogoff, Wells and Lindfors	3
Developing social-emotional skills through imaginative teaching methods in elementary education	3
Associations between maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing problems	3
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families	3
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	3
Examining the effectiveness of body massage on physical status of premature neonates and their mothers’ psychological status	3
Young children’s play during a time of social distancing	3
A framework for considering teacher-child musical interactions in the early childhood classroom	2
Effects of family-focused early intervention on the neurodevelopment of children at biological and/or social risks: a quasi-experimental randomized controlled trial	2
Head righting reflex in newborns as the predictive factor of early child development: a longitudinal study	2
Physical and sensory environment interventions to support children’s social and emotional development in early childhood education and care settings: a systematic review	2
Is there a connection between children’s language skills, creativity, and play?	2
Effect of music instruction on phonological awareness and early literacy skills of five- to seven-year-old children	2
Changes in the weight status of school children in Turkey during the COVID-19 lockdown period	2
The relationship between children’s temperament and fundamental movement skills mediated by autonomy and self-regulation	2
Preschool screen-media usage predicts mental imagery two years later	2
Positive parenting assessment in 4 year old children	2
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	2
Sibling struggles: the impact of siblings upon child development in rural China	2
Preschool theory of mind: it’s relation with mother’s parental stress and reflective function	2
Children developing self-regulation skills in a Kids’ Skills intervention programme in Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care	2
Vygotsky’s contributions to understandings of emotional development through early childhood play	2
Child gender, ethnic difference, and the development of father engagement during early childhood	2
Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	2
Infant language stimulation: a mixed-methods study of low-income families’ preference for and use of ten strategies	2
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort	2
Theorists and their developmental theories	2
Imitation and intention understanding in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder	2
How teachers, peers, and classroom materials support children’s inquiry in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool	2
The relative age effect and gender difference on fundamental motor skills in preschool children aged 4–5 years	2
Do you want to play with me? Acceptance and preference dilemmas in choosing playmates with physical disability	2
Mikhail Bakhtin: a two-faced encounter with child becoming(s) through dialogue	2
Factors associated with cognitive and motor delays in Malaysian infants aged 6–12 months	2
Influences of executive functions on agility and comprehensive physical ability in kindergarteners	2
Education versus care for infants and toddlers: the Australian early childhood challenge	2
Play within outdoor preschool learning environments of Greece: a comparative study on current and prospective Kindergarten Educators	2
Predictor variables of neurodevelopmental characteristics at 2 years among low birth weight and preterm children: a 2-year follow-up study	2
What, where, when and how: Finnish children’s perceptions of learning in preschool	2
Predicting third-grade academic achievement in low-socioeconomic children: developmental and socio-behavioural influences in kindergarten	2
Relations between parental math beliefs and emergent math skills among preschoolers from low-income households	2
The role of partnership practices in strengthening parental trust	2
Play tendency and prosociality in early childhood	2
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting	2
Effect of Kangaroo care on Vulnerable Infant Syndrome in mother	2
The relationship between preschoolers’ sensory regulation and temperament: implications for parents and early childhood caregivers	2
Personal and fictional narratives development in kindergarten children. The effects of an intervention programme	2
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	2
Family process and young children’s social adaptation: conditional process analyses across child-care experiences	2

On the importance of being flexible: early interrelations between affective flexibility, executive functions and anxiety symptoms in preschoolers	2
Cultural-historical study of crises in child role adjustment during transition to school within a bi-cultural context	2
The impact of begin to ECSEL on children’s self-regulation, executive functions and learning	2
Parent engagement in early care and education settings: relationship with engagement practices and child, parent, and centre characteristics	2
The effect of postpartum sleep quality on mothers’ breastfeeding self-efficacy level	2
Early childhood theories, ideals and social-political movements, an oral history study of pioneers in the second half of the twentieth century	2
Caregiver–child relationships in after-school care: the role of gender and the gender match	2
Improving learners’ comprehension skills in the early years through group discussion	2
Cultural literacy of preschool teachers teaching children from different cultures	1
Study of perception of parents and their children about day-to-day outdoor play spaces	1
Cognitive development of children in vulnerable contexts: the role of psychosocial intervention	1
Developmental implications of preschool children’s affective experiences during organized activities	1
Effect of using white noise, embracing and facilitated tucking on pain during heel lance blood sampling in newborns	1
Sustaining curiosity: Reggio-Emilia inspired learning	1
Counselling for self- and career construction outcomes for an adolescent boy with Tourette’s disorder: single participant intervention research	1
Preschool children’s behavioural intentions towards and perceptions of peers with disabilities in a preschool classroom	1
Investigating caregiver coaching in an early intervention model for children with hearing loss	1
Growth in children with congenital Zika syndrome: a 4-years longitudinal cohort study	1
The dual role of nurses as mothers during the pandemic period: qualitative study	1
Seeing infants differently: Magda Gerber’s contributions to the early care and education field and their continuing relevance	1
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	1
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	1
The effectiveness of gross motor interventions in improving motor function in childhood apraxia of speech	1
The relationship between theory of mind and peer acceptance in preschool children: a test of the counterfactual hypothesis in the social domain	1
Parental self-efficacy and comforting behaviour of the firstborn children in different situations: the mediating role of sibling relationships	1
The relationship between play and language milestones in infancy	1
‘Shared story reading training for mothers: the effect of parent-child shared story reading on improving autobiographical memory, self-concept, and child’s self-representation’	1
Froebel’s kindergarten and its movement in Germany and the United States	1
Examining the indirect effects of kindergarteners’ executive functions on their academic achievement in the middle grades of elementary school	1
The interrelation between children’s play behaviour, temperament, and special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood special education (ECSE)	1
Musical learning as a contributing factor in the development of socio-emotional competence in children aged 4 and 5: an Exploratory study in a naturalistic context	1
Preschool children’s behaviours in competitive games: are these games really harmful to social-emotional development?	1
Parental negative emotionality and emotional reactions to child’s crying: the mediating role of child’s temperament	1
Variability in infant crawling with typical development and risk of developmental delay	1
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	1
Examination of the relationship between the creativity and social skills of primary school children	1
Parenting issues and attachment orientations: a comparison between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
South African community health workers’ perspectives of mother–infant bonding	1
The effects of kangaroo care at birth on exclusively breastfeeding, baby’s growth and development according to attachment theory: a randomized controlled trial	1
Association between home motor affordances and motor skills in daycare and non-daycare attending children	1
Waldorf inspired hyper-imaginative learning trajectories: developing new media literacies in elementary education	1
Bathing routines in different infant placement settings: an ethological study	1
Investigation of early kangaroo care applied newborns who had invasive interventions in delivery room with COMFORTneo Behavior Scale	1
Relations between socioeconomic status, parental stress, parenting practices, and working memory in Hong Kong kindergarten children	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
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	1
Preschoolers’ executive function boots the development of empathy: one-year cross-lagged panel analysis	1
‘I can do this by my own self’: how four preschool-aged children navigated mobile technologies at home	1
The metamorphosis of early childhood theorists and pioneers	1
The role of emotional reactivity in a relation between sleep problems and the use of screen-based media among toddlers and pre-schoolers	1
Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs	1
Children’s engagement in Quebec childcare centres: progression from 3 to 5 years old and predictor variables	1
The bittersweet experience of parents living with premature multi-birth new-borns	1
The role of socioeconomic status gradients for the child's developmental health	1
Friedrich Froebel: interpolation, extrapolation	1
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	1
Accident prevention in early child rearing institutions: an integrative review	1
Self-regulation and play: how children’s play directed with executive function and emotion regulation	1
Prenatal, perinatal and postnatal risk factors associated with fine motor function delay in pre-school children in Neiva, Colombia	1
Early motor copying behaviours: analysis of their functions and relationship with language	1
An exploration of the relationship between schema and language: four young child case studies	1
The representation of mental states in young children’s writings: the role of early narratives in supporting theory of mind	1
The relationship of breastfeeding self-efficacy with relationship satisfaction and family function in mothers during the first year postpartum	1
The effects of health counselling and follow-up care on maternal-infant attachment	1
Cognitive basis of drawing in young children: relationships with language and imaginary companions	1
Exploring caregivers’ perceptions on their role in promoting early childhood development	1
Fidelity of implementation of activity-based intervention in daycare	1
Examining the role of demographic characteristics, attachment, and language in preschool children’s executive function skills	1
Unprecedented times: what we have learned about remote instruction in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Sleep problems, sleep environment and daily routines in Turkish preschoolers	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
Caregiving dispositions as predictors of postpartum depression and mother-baby bonding: parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction as resources	1
Challenges and opportunities: book discussions of gender non-conformity in two preschool classrooms	1
Low birth weight and prematurity as predictors of children’s receiving special education services	1
Developing categories for children’s creative and responsive musical actions in group improvisation: a mixed methods action research study	1
Prolonged breastfeeding can reduce internalizing problem behaviours of young children by enhancing mothers’ social parenting	1
Mothers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards infant crying: predicting postpartum depressive symptoms	1