Early Child Development and Care

Article	Citations
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator	24
Is school readiness associated with externalizing symptoms?	20
The relationship between children’s sleep patterns, media consumption, and temperamental activity level	16
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	13
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	12
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	12
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	11
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	10
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	10
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	9
Family media ecology and preschoolers’ screen time: insights from a network analysis of 13,596 Chinese families	8
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	8
Father-infant synchrony and infant vagal tone as an index of emotion regulation: father-infant shared times in Switzerland as moderators	8
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	8
The transition of bidirectional association between children's social-emotional problems and maternal parenting sense of competence in preschool: a cross-lagged longitudinal study	8
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	8
Research on the effectiveness of integrated early childhood education models: an international comparative analysis based on children’s continuous development	8
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	8
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	8
Sex differences in growth in body mass and psychosocial abilities in children in Head Start	8
How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	7
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	7
Comparing the effects of AR picture books and print picture books on preschoolers’ reading effect	7
An experimental study to develop early literacy skills: establishing a dialog, play and tell-Early literacy skills support practices with mother involvement (DPT-ELP)	7
The concept of pupils' interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden	6

Jewish and Arab kindergarten teachers cope with the challenges of encountering the other in Israel: ‘My Diverse Kindergarten’	6
Current status of infant and toddler care, parenting stress, and childcare needs of working mothers: evidence from Anhui Province, China	6
Parental selection of shared reading materials: a scoping review	6
Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	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
Mediating role of partner affection and support and maternal engagement in associations between maternal and paternal depression and child behavioural difficulties in Guyanese families	6
Parental satisfaction with after-school child care services in urban public elementary schools in China: an evaluation of service effectiveness	6
Child-level ECE quality and toddler language development: a bidirectional perspective	6
Creative arts intervention for a firstborn child during the transition to siblinghood: a Chinese case study	6
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	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
Associations between father incarceration and Head Start children's academic and social competence: a case–control matching analysis	5
The well-being of Rohingya children in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh during the Covid 19 pandemic: a qualitative exploration	5
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	5
Enhancing preschoolers’ map literacy through eye-tracking analysis: investigating the effects of symbol recognition and spatial reasoning instruction	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
The impact of the creative leadership qualities of preschool teachers on children’s motivation	5
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	5
The relationship between approximate number system and mathematical achievement in 5–6 years children: a parallel mediation analysis	5
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China	5
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	5
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	5
Paternal cognitions and strategies related to sleep problems of toddlers: a qualitative study from the father’s point of view	5
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	5
Associations between of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about children's emotions on preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviours	5
Children’s behavioural problems in Chinese kindergartens: dual perspectives from teacher reports and classroom observations	4
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	4
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
How does a mother perceive her child's mind? Developmental changes in child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child’s minds	4
Relational continuity in early childhood: linkages of maternal sensitivity in infancy, preschool-age children’s attachment narratives, and social behaviour	4
Children’s beliefs concerning their school performance at the end of the first grade in Finland	4
‘Switch that off!’: the influence of digital parenting and mediation practices on young children’s engagement with digital technologies in the home	4
Adult–child pedagogical interactions in the home and in preschool: what commonalities can pre-schoolers experience in the context of cognitive development?	4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review	4
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	4
Family communication and everyday executive function in preschool children	4
Teacher-child interaction quality in Head Start and children’s kindergarten skills: a person-centered approach	4
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment	4
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	4
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	4
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	4
Parental engagement in caregiving activities and its association with socioeconomic and child-rearing environment at home in Vietnam	4
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
Quality of interactions in child day-care centres: status quo analysis of interaction designs in daily kindergarten routine	3
Early nursery attendance and infant neurodevelopment at 1 year of age	3
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	3
Differentiation of ‘multilingual children’ in early education through knowledge of family language practices	3
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	3

Is screen exposure beneficial or detrimental to language development in infants and toddlers? A meta-analysis	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	3
Face-to-face vs. screen-based dialogic reading: a comparative study on language skills in preschool children	3
Impact of maternal, paternal mental state talk and quality of parenting on executive function of preschoolers	3
Can child-friendly tools support young, autistic children to better communicate about their well-being to help inform school provision?	3
Mother- child interaction and contextual factors related to COVID-19 pandemic in at-risk infants: cross-sectional study	3
Enhancing cognitive stimulation at home: PlayReadVIP for Brazilian families	3
Family cultural capital in relation to cognitive and socio-emotional development in preschoolers	3
Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	3
Care-giver child interactions and early cognitive development in West and Central Africa	3
Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	3
Forest kindergarten: fostering ecological cognition and executive function in preschoolers	3
Upstream or downstream reciprocity: which matters more for sharing expectations and behavior in 4- to 5-year-old children?	3
Little fingers, big competition: digital game addiction and competition styles of preschool children in the context of collectivist culture	3
Programme-based experiences of preschool teachers regarding support of children’s social skills	3
Positive and multifaceted perceptions of Israeli kindergarten teachers contribute to developmental gains of children with developmental delay	3
Exploring preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	3
Personal and fictional narratives development in kindergarten children. The effects of an intervention programme	3
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	3
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	3
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	3
Standing out from the crowd: the role of theory of mind on childhood creativity	3
Home caregiving, early learning and developmental outcomes among preschool-aged children in Fiji	2
How early childhood stress relates to parents’ involvement in children’s daily lives: a longitudinal study	2
Temporal, contextual, and relational variability of maternal mind-mindedness and child communicative development in the second year of life	2
Improving early childhood teachers’ emotional skills supporting children’s academic socio-emotional development	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
Exploring the association between mother's insecure adult attachment and negative parenting behaviour: the role of general and maternal mentalization	2
The effect of sensorimotor interventions on feeding readiness and oral feeding success in preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial	2
How children selectively trust moral testimony in helpful and harmful situations	2
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review	2
Chinese young children’s work education under the impact of the global pandemic and digitalization	2
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	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
The efficacy of cognitive–behavioural play therapy and puppet play therapy on bilingual children’s expressive, receptive language disorders	2
Cultural literacy of preschool teachers teaching children from different cultures	2
Supporting young children’s social emotional competence in the Republic of Georgia: a focus group study	2
Effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on maternal adaptation and newborn perception in the postpartum period	2
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	2
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	2
Toddlers’ social-emotional competence and problem behaviours: associations with parenting stress and social support among Finnish first-time parents	2
Integrating a hybrid mode into kindergarten STEM education: its impact on young children’s critical thinking skills during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Effect of using white noise, embracing and facilitated tucking on pain during heel lance blood sampling in newborns	2
Social relationships, interactions and learning in early childhood – theoretical approaches, empirical findings and challenges	2
The impact of Couple Relationship Education (CRE) on parents of young children’s couple functioning, family harmony, parenting and their children’s aggressive behaviour	2
Developmental implications of preschool children’s affective experiences during organized activities	2
Social exclusion, and mistrust of state-led early childhood care and education policies: a qualitative case study in the estate sector of Sri Lanka	2
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	2
Caregiving dispositions as predictors of postpartum depression and mother-baby bonding: parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction as resources	2
The predictive relation of maternal sensitivity over time and child characteristics on early attachment	2
Making connections between learning centres and children’s play lives during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Shifting from Parental Engagement to Family Engagement : exploring the role of family in supporting young children’s learning in Wakhan, T	2
The kindergarten in the religious kibbutz – The intersection between religious education and kibbutz education	2
Digital learning in pandemic times: assessing academic readiness among refugee children in Malaysia	2
Children’s drawings of student-teacher relationship quality: examining change over the first year of school.	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
Home or away? The relation between open or closed educational frameworks, parental distress, and child difficulties in the context of armed conflict	2
Enhancing preschoolers' cognitive flexibility and pre-literacy skills through dialogic reading: evidence from an Italian teacher-led intervention	2
Effects of swimming on the development of motor skill competency in Chinese preschool children	1
The relationship between coming to school hungry and child development: analysis of the Australian Early Development Census	1
An investigation on the effects of block play on the creativity of children	1
‘I’m no longer myself anymore’: burnout and coping of educators-caregivers in day-care centres in Israel	1
Variability in infant crawling with typical development and risk of developmental delay	1
Bioecological factors associated with gross motor skills of preschool children	1
Developmental outcomes in children treated for focal and non-focal forms of congenital hyperinsulinism	1
The role of parental stress in the relationship between preschool children's behavioural problems and parents’ attitudes and children's problematic media use	1
Direct and indirect pathways to kindergartners’ school adjustment: roles of children’s parent and friendship representations	1
Relationships among integration of Primitive reflexes and motor competence in children	1
Relationships between parental self-efficacy and Chinese preschoolers’ school readiness: the mediating role of home-based parental involvement	1
Mapping children’s school readiness: insights from network analysis	1
Family social capital in kindergarten: predicting third-grade learning and developmental outcomes for low-SES urban children	1
Unprecedented times: what we have learned about remote instruction in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Examining the influence of maternal, paternal and joint parental depression on co-occupations at 2 months postpartum	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
Child development and family relationships in families following ART	1
‘It’s Very Spooky in Here’: young children’s fears and anxieties in the natural environment	1
Exploring young children's social-emotional adjustment: insights from peer interaction patterns	1

Exploring the cognitive apprenticeship approach in teacher education: a case study of an early childhood practicum experience	1
Longitudinal effects of language skills and maternal depression symptoms on problem behaviours in preschool children	1
Exploratory study on predictive variables for risk groups of problem behaviours in 4-year-old South Korean preschoolers	1
The interrelation between children’s play behaviour, temperament, and special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood special education (ECSE)	1
Relations between teacher–child interaction quality and children’s playfulness	1
Cross-cultural comparison of social competence and behaviour problems: teacher–child relationships in Chinese and Chinese-Spanish children	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
‘Is it a boy or a girl who is embarrassed?’: preschool children's gendered justification of emotions	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
The relationship between paternal involvement and support and children’s social competence in China: the chain mediating role of intimate father–child relationships and children's empathy	1
Investigating children’s mathematical learning during block play: a video observation research	1
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting	1
Early detection of mental disorders in child psychiatry: the accuracy of parental concerns	1
Screen time and behavioural problems among preschool children: unveiling the mediating effect of sleep quality	1
Family functioning of pre-schoolers and its relationship with prosocial behaviour: latent profile analysis and network perspective	1
Can we guide parents to be playful? The effect of stimulated parental playfulness on children's emotional expression	1
The relationships between shyness and internalizing problems: a moderated mediation model	1
Parent-child joint leisure activities during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Embodied action enhances conservation reasoning: age and task effects in early childhood	1
Family resilience and problem behaviours in Chinese preschool children: the chain mediating role of maternal parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy	1
Children’s response accuracy: examining the effect of activity engagement, age, language proficiency, and time elapse	1
Associations between combinations of 24-hour movement behaviours and fundamental movement skills in preschool children: a systematic review	1
COVID-19 school disruptions in early childhood education and children’s early elementary school outcomes: findings from the smart beginnings randomized clinical trial	1
Behavioral self-regulation development in at-risk families: the role of family resources	1
What gender are the animal characters in the illustrations? Gender stereotyping by children in early childhood	1
Children’s knowledge construction of computational thinking in a play-based classroom	1
Association among motor skills and fluid intelligence in children aged from 5 to 7 years with different sports skill learning	1
‘Let them play’ the effect of active play on motor proficiency and social maturity of children	1
The influence of birth order and sibling age gap on children’s sharing decision	1
Using Theraplay® to support children and families: a scoping review	1
Relationships between parental marital quality and preschool children’s prosocial behaviours: a meta-analysis	1
How does digitalization in early childhood education in China shape young children’s learning? A scoping review	1
Maternal responsive behaviours and child language outcomes in a cohort of mothers and children facing adversity	1
The relationships between the COVID-19 fears of mothers and their mother-infant bonding and breastfeeding self-efficacy in the postpartum period	1