Browsing by Author "McCartney, Kathleen"
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Quality Child Care Supports the Achievement of Low-Income Children: Direct and Indirect Pathways Through Caregiving and the Home Environment
McCartney, Kathleen Ann; Dearing, Eric; Taylor, Beck A.; Bud, Kristen L. (2007)Existing studies of child care have not been able to determine whether higher quality child care protects children from the effects of poverty, whether poverty and lower quality child care operate as dual risk factors, or ... -
Risks and Outcomes Associated with Disorganized/Controlling Patterns of Attachment at Age Three in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
O'Connor, Erin; Bureau, Jean-Francois; McCartney, Kathleen Ann; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (2011)Disorganized/controlling attachment in preschool has been found to be associated with maternal and child maladjustment, making it of keen interest in the study of psychopathology. Additional work is needed, however, to ... -
Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior
McCartney, Kathleen Ann; Burchinal, Margaret; Bud, Kristen L.; Owen, Margaret T.; Belsky, Jay; Clarke-Stewart, Alison (American Psychological Association, 2010)Prior research has documented associations between child care hours and children’s externalizing behavior. A series of longitudinal analyses were conducted to address five propositions, each testing the hypothesis that ...