Early Child Development and Care

Article	Citations
The impact of Couple Relationship Education (CRE) on parents of young children’s couple functioning, family harmony, parenting and their children’s aggressive behaviour	24
Revisiting Piaget, his contribution to South African early childhood education	13
Young children’s selective trust decision between relative versus precise expressions	10
Developmental outcomes in children treated for focal and non-focal forms of congenital hyperinsulinism	9
Integrating a hybrid mode into kindergarten STEM education: its impact on young children’s critical thinking skills during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator	8
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	8
Relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, with generalized anxiety as mediator	7
Challenges and opportunities: book discussions of gender non-conformity in two preschool classrooms	7
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	7
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	7
Prosocial development in early childhood: strategies of teachers and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	7
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	6
Family resilience and problem behaviours in Chinese preschool children: the chain mediating role of maternal parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy	6
Subjective school wellbeing of refugee and local children: Voices from having, loving, and being dimensions	6
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	6
Influence of relative age effect (RAE) on motor performance of preschool children: a systematic review	6
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	6
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	6
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	5
The relationship between mothers’ obsessive and compulsive behaviours regarding baby care and breastfeeding self-efficacy: the mediator role of postpartum depression	5
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	5
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families	5
The metamorphosis of early childhood theorists and pioneers	5
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	5

Sleep problems, sleep environment and daily routines in Turkish preschoolers	5
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	5
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	5
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	5
Boys, weapon toys, war play and meaning-making: prohibiting play in early childhood education settings?	4
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	4
Children’s engagement in Quebec childcare centres: progression from 3 to 5 years old and predictor variables	4
Preschool screen-media usage predicts mental imagery two years later	4
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	4
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	4
Preventative intervention home visitation programme for mothers with fussy infants: a mixed methods, pilot assessment of maternal self-efficacy, mental health, infant-bonding, and programme experience	4
Vulnerable preschoolers mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina: A cross-sectional study	4
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	4
Children’s drawings of student-teacher relationship quality: examining change over the first year of school.	4
Social relationships, interactions and learning in early childhood – theoretical approaches, empirical findings and challenges	4
Breastfeeding and its relationship with motor development of infants at 3–4 months of age	4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Relations between teacher–child interaction quality and children’s playfulness	4
Behavioral self-regulation development in at-risk families: the role of family resources	4
Correction	3
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review	3
Promotion of school readiness in home visiting: creating a key driver diagram for continuous quality improvement	3
Social exclusion, and mistrust of state-led early childhood care and education policies: a qualitative case study in the estate sector of Sri Lanka	3
Mothers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards infant crying: predicting postpartum depressive symptoms	3
Caregiving dispositions as predictors of postpartum depression and mother-baby bonding: parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction as resources	3
Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs	3
The relationship of parents’ attributes and practices with the promotion of recommended movement behaviours in young children during school suspensions	3
Co-regulation in dyadic parent–child relationships: a video analysis of well-functioning interactions	3
The relationships between the COVID-19 fears of mothers and their mother-infant bonding and breastfeeding self-efficacy in the postpartum period	3
Children on the borders between institution, home and leisure: space to fend for yourself when leaving the school-age educare centre	3
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting	3
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	3
The kindergarten in the religious kibbutz – The intersection between religious education and kibbutz education	3
The dual role of nurses as mothers during the pandemic period: qualitative study	3
The effect of active brain-breaks on fundamental movement skills and executive functioning of Grade one children in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Early detection of mental disorders in child psychiatry: the accuracy of parental concerns	3
The effect of biological nurturing on breastfeeding success and self-efficacy in primiparous women: a randomized controlled study	3
Relationships between parental marital quality and preschool children’s prosocial behaviours: a meta-analysis	3
Normative expectations on childbearing: a study of reproductive justice	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	2
The relationship between preschool children’s electronic product use and problem behaviours: a moderated mediation model	2
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	2
Parenting programmes targeting parents of children with disabilities: a scoping review on programmes' characteristics and co-parenting contents	2
‘I can do this by my own self’: how four preschool-aged children navigated mobile technologies at home	2
The influence of birth order and sibling age gap on children’s sharing decision	2
The relationship between theory of mind and peer acceptance in preschool children: a test of the counterfactual hypothesis in the social domain	2
Parenting styles and young children’s problem behaviours: the mediating role of electronic media usage	2
Children born very or extremely preterm transitioning to school: a cross-sectional study examining predictors of school readiness, school adjustment, and support needs	2
The efficacy of cognitive–behavioural play therapy and puppet play therapy on bilingual children’s expressive, receptive language disorders	2

Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	2
‘Chairs of Conflict Resolution’: training young children to resolve conflicts in Greek kindergartens	2
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	2
The impact of COVID-related school disruption on kindergarten children’s development	2
Dancing With children or dancing for children? Measuring the effects of a dance intervention in children’s confidence and agency	2
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort	2
Family social capital in kindergarten: predicting third-grade learning and developmental outcomes for low-SES urban children	2
Ethnic-racial socialization in early childhood: effects of parent–teacher congruency on children’s social and emotional development	2
Promoting social competence and social inclusion in the preschool: a peer-based relational intervention	2
The experiences of early childhood development care centre staff in providing care and learning support in a low socioeconomic community in South Africa	2
Child development and family relationships in families following ART	2
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	2
The effectiveness of swaddling and maternal holding applied during heel blood collection on pain level of healthy term newborns; randomized controlled trial	2
Vocabulary enrichment using an E-book with and without kindergarten teacher’s support among LSES children	2
How does a mother perceive her child's mind? Developmental changes in child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child’s minds	2
The predictive effect of problematic behaviours on cognitive tempo and attention level in 60–66 months old children	2
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	2
The effect of sensorimotor interventions on feeding readiness and oral feeding success in preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial	2
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	1
Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	1
Combined screening of early childhood development, hearing and vision by community health workers using mHealth tools in a low-income community	1
Introduction to the special Issue: Early Childhood Education in Israel	1
Home environment and social skills of Japanese preschool children pre- and post-COVID-19	1
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	1
What, where, when and how: Finnish children’s perceptions of learning in preschool	1
‘It is an unfair game’: the role of capital in framing the relationships between kindergarten teachers and parents	1
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	1
Cognitive development of children in vulnerable contexts: the role of psychosocial intervention	1
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	1
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	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 relationship between theory of mind and social competence with peers in Chinese urban preschoolers: the effects of rater, age, and gender	1
Overall development of infants discharged from NICU followed up at a public reference service in the first 18 months of life: a comparative study	1
The concept of pupils' interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden	1
Mothers with tandem breastfeeding experience: a qualitative study	1
Music in the lives of young children	1
Father-infant synchrony and infant vagal tone as an index of emotion regulation: father-infant shared times in Switzerland as moderators	1
Imitation and intention understanding in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder	1
Association between home motor affordances and motor skills in daycare and non-daycare attending children	1
The relative age effect and gender difference on fundamental motor skills in preschool children aged 4–5 years	1
The relationship of family leisure physical activities and children's social competence: the mediating role of parent–child relationships and the moderating role of parenting styles	1
Developmental characteristics and mental health of low birth weight children at 2 years in relation to sociodemographic risk factors	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 preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	1
Features, measurement, and quality improvement in family childcare: a systematic literature review (SLR)	1
Predicting third-grade academic achievement in low-socioeconomic children: developmental and socio-behavioural influences in kindergarten	1
Early motor copying behaviours: analysis of their functions and relationship with language	1
How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	1
Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) reference values at different stages of pregnancy and their possible associations with major obstetric and demographic characteristics	1
Digital learning in pandemic times: assessing academic readiness among refugee children in Malaysia	1
Emergent digital literacy in Chinese preschoolers: developmental patterns and associated predicators	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
Does attending center-based care prior to kindergarten improve Latino children’s academic readiness?	1
Parenting issues and attachment orientations: a comparison between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
The representation of mental states in young children’s writings: the role of early narratives in supporting theory of mind	1
Unprecedented times: what we have learned about remote instruction in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	1
Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	1
‘It’s Very Spooky in Here’: young children’s fears and anxieties in the natural environment	1
Self-regulation and play: how children’s play directed with executive function and emotion regulation	1
A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers	1
Difficulties experienced in providing care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit during COVID-19	1
Physical and sensory environment interventions to support children’s social and emotional development in early childhood education and care settings: a systematic review	1
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	1
Caregiver–child relationships in after-school care: the role of gender and the gender match	1
Enhancing 3–4-year-old rural Chinese children’s theory of mind: a randomized control trial to evaluate a parent-involved school-based dialogic reading intervention programme	1
Effect of using white noise, embracing and facilitated tucking on pain during heel lance blood sampling in newborns	1
The relationship of breastfeeding self-efficacy with relationship satisfaction and family function in mothers during the first year postpartum	1
Media-related parenting and children’s media use among Chinese young children during the post-pandemic age: a large-scale representative study	1
Developmental disparities based on socioeconomic status and sex: an analysis of two large, population-based early childhood development assessments in Uruguay	1
Role and trends in voluntary action repetition during infants’ object play	1
Precarity and work-family balance: fathers’ workplace demands and perinatal home visiting participation	1
Reflection on methodologies and prioritizing children’s perspectives on protection needs within informal urban settings	1
Sex differences in growth in body mass and psychosocial abilities in children in Head Start	1
Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	1
Toddlers’ social experiences and learning related behaviour in early childcare: a video-based observational study	1
The role of partnership practices in strengthening parental trust	1
Assessment of infant development in institutional contexts	1

Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	1
A meta-analysis of teacher–child interaction and early child outcomes from the perspective of CLASS	1
Raising children: single parents’ parenting styles with children living with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder	0
Associations of muscular fitness and body composition in children	0
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	0
Face-to-face vs. screen-based dialogic reading: a comparative study on language skills in preschool children	0
Cognitive development among low birthweight (LBW) children at 4-year-old in relation to socio-demographic variables and chronic morbidities	0
A lag between understanding false beliefs and belief-based emotions in Chinese young children: the effects of material familiarity	0
A tale of fantasy use in children’s picture books	0
Back-and-forth conversation during parent–child co-use of an educational app game	0
Children’s early reading through the sense of smell: a typology of olfactory engagement	0
Agree or disagree? A comparison of the staff’s and parents’ perceptions of important factors and goal fulfilment for an inclusive preschool in Sweden.	0
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China	0
Revealing the linkage between parental perspectives on outdoor activities and the health-related quality of life in young children	0
Examination of the relationship between the creativity and social skills of primary school children	0
Children’s response accuracy: examining the effect of activity engagement, age, language proficiency, and time elapse	0
Children’s everyday manifestations of grief and grieving in early childhood education and care	0
Prerequisites for emergent literacy in Swedish preschools	0
Investigating children’s mathematical learning during block play: a video observation research	0
Comparing speech acts and complexity of maternal speech to singleton and first-born dizygotic twin infants	0
Effect of Kangaroo care on Vulnerable Infant Syndrome in mother	0
Variability in infant crawling with typical development and risk of developmental delay	0
The study of parents creating opportunities for their preschoolers in using basic scientific process skills at home	0
Essentials for excellence in quality early child care	0
Care-giver child interactions and early cognitive development in West and Central Africa	0
‘You can’t have it both ways’: Arab women caretakers in kibbutz kindergartens in Israel	0
Chinese young children’s work education under the impact of the global pandemic and digitalization	0
Is screen exposure beneficial or detrimental to language development in infants and toddlers? A meta-analysis	0
Sustaining curiosity: Reggio-Emilia inspired learning	0
Theorists and their developmental theories	0
Examining the indirect effects of kindergarteners’ executive functions on their academic achievement in the middle grades of elementary school	0
Can we guide parents to be playful? The effect of stimulated parental playfulness on children's emotional expression	0
An exploration of the post-pandemic profiles and predictors of children’s digital literacy and multimodal practices in Canada	0
Improvements in babies’ neuropsychomotor development after family-centered Kids Intervention Therapy – Aquatic Environment (KITE): biopsychosocial approach	0
Outdoor play activities and outdoor environment of early childhood education in Turkey: a qualitative meta-synthesis	0
Impact of maternal, paternal mental state talk and quality of parenting on executive function of preschoolers	0
Appetitive traits as predictors of exclusive breastfeeding in infants for the first six months	0
Preschoolers’ executive function boots the development of empathy: one-year cross-lagged panel analysis	0
A comprehensive three-level meta-analysis of the positive discipline programme: effectiveness and moderating variables	0
Using Theraplay® to support children and families: a scoping review	0
Maternal input to infants and toddlers after an early hospitalization: a longitudinal study	0
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	0
Examining the role of demographic characteristics, attachment, and language in preschool children’s executive function skills	0
Children’s beliefs concerning their school performance at the end of the first grade in Finland	0
The promise of digital storytelling for kindergarteners: language and technology skills	0
Developing connections between healthy living and environmental sustainability concepts in Cretan preschool children: a randomized trial	0
An investigation on the effects of block play on the creativity of children	0
Developmental implications of preschool children’s affective experiences during organized activities	0
Receptive vocabulary of preschool children with migration backgrounds: the effect of home literacy activities	0
Home or away? The relation between open or closed educational frameworks, parental distress, and child difficulties in the context of armed conflict	0
Spillover effects of gestational age on sibling’s literacy	0
Enhancing resilience in rural Chinese preschoolers: a randomized controlled trial of play-based picture-book reading intervention for 4-5-year-olds	0
Preschool children’s behavioural intentions towards and perceptions of peers with disabilities in a preschool classroom	0
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	0
The role of mother–child relationship between young children’s anxiety and social play	0
Parental engagement in caregiving activities and its association with socioeconomic and child-rearing environment at home in Vietnam	0
Digital parenting during the COVID-19 lockdowns: how Chinese parents viewed and mediated young children’s digital use	0
Screen time and preschoolers’ pre-academic and behavioural competence: the moderating role of child characteristics	0
The relationship between approximate number system and mathematical achievement in 5–6 years children: a parallel mediation analysis	0
Accident prevention in early child rearing institutions: an integrative review	0
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	0
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	0
The impact of begin to ECSEL on children’s self-regulation, executive functions and learning	0
Course of maternal anxiety disorders and their impact on child development in toddlers: a study with young mothers	0
Examining the relation between adult scaffolding of make-believe play and children’s executive functions: an observational study conducted in a natural educational setting	0
Screen time and behavioural problems among preschool children: unveiling the mediating effect of sleep quality	0
‘Our work is to be there’: understanding Latinx immigrant family, friend, and neighbour childcare providers’ motivations, needs, and experiences	0
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	0
Examining the longitudinal association between toddlers’ early shyness and their well-being during their first year in Norwegian early childhood education and care	0
The relationship between coming to school hungry and child development: analysis of the Australian Early Development Census	0
Play tendency and prosociality in early childhood	0
‘I’m no longer myself anymore’: burnout and coping of educators-caregivers in day-care centres in Israel	0
Children’s knowledge construction of computational thinking in a play-based classroom	0
Predictor variables of neurodevelopmental characteristics at 2 years among low birth weight and preterm children: a 2-year follow-up study	0
Mother- child interaction and contextual factors related to COVID-19 pandemic in at-risk infants: cross-sectional study	0
Children understand economics too: knowledge and experience of basic financial concepts	0
How maternal traumatic childhood experiences affect adolescent and young mother–infant interaction at 3 months	0
Developing a social and emotional wellbeing intervention using the early childhood education and care environment: an Intervention Mapping approach	0
Number sense predicts arithmetic competence in young Chinese children: the role of visual spatial skills and inhibitory control	0
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	0
What gender are the animal characters in the illustrations? Gender stereotyping by children in early childhood	0
Exploring the cognitive apprenticeship approach in teacher education: a case study of an early childhood practicum experience	0
Association among motor skills and fluid intelligence in children aged from 5 to 7 years with different sports skill learning	0
Maternal responsive behaviours and child language outcomes in a cohort of mothers and children facing adversity	0
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	0
Positive and multifaceted perceptions of Israeli kindergarten teachers contribute to developmental gains of children with developmental delay	0
The relationship of family support and peer acceptance in children aged 4–6: the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies	0
Differentiation of ‘multilingual children’ in early education through knowledge of family language practices	0
Nannies or creche: exploring child carers’ knowledge of the first 1000 days and their perception of the significance of their role as carers	0
Parent-child joint leisure activities during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
The education of children in hospital schools. a literature review	0
An exploration of the relationship between schema and language: four young child case studies	0
Families come in many forms: attitudes and practices of Israeli kindergarten teachers towards diverse families	0
Friendships among young children: links with social behaviour	0
Bioecological factors associated with gross motor skills of preschool children	0