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Child care experience, stressors and fears in one-to-two year olds
Infant Behavior & Development (1996)
  • Patrice M. Miller, Harvard University
Abstract
Boucher, Gianareles, Wilkins and Miller (1994) found that children who experienced more stressors (such as serious illnesses or injuries) were also reported to experience more fears. The current study examines the relationship of the frequency of reported fears in toddlers to: a) the number of stressors they are reported to have experienced, and b) aspects of their child care experience. Subjects were twenty-one children between the ages of one and two, and their parents. Parents answered written questions on children’s fears (what kinds and how many fears did the child experience), childcare experience (hours per week in child care, number of changes in child care arrangements), and stressors (child’s exposure to moving, illness, injury or death). All of the children had at least 2 fears, with the mean number of fears being 9.5 (sd = 6.0) and were reported to have experienced on average 1.19 stressors (sd = 1.2, range = O-4).
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Publication Date
April 1, 1996
DOI
10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90678-5
Citation Information
Patrice M. Miller. "Child care experience, stressors and fears in one-to-two year olds" Infant Behavior & Development Vol. 19 (1996) p. 624
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrice-miller/23/