Daniel Berry|Clancy Blair|Michael T. Willoughby|Patricia Garrett?Peters|Lynne Vernon?Feagans|W. Roger Mills?Koonce
Household chaos and children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development in early childhood: Does childcare play a buffering role?
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign|New York University|RTI International|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Greensboro
evidence suggests household chaos associated less optimal child outcomes yet increasing indication childrens experiences childcare may buffer detrimental effects environments study aims test 1 whether childrens experiences childcare mitigated relations household chaos childrens cognitive social development 2 whether conditional chaos effects mediated links chaos executive functioning using data family life project n 1235a populationbased sample families lowincome rural contextsour findings indicated household disorganization early childhood predictive worse cognitive social outcomes approximately age five however relations substantially attenuated children attending greater childcare hours subsequent models indicated conditional associations household disorganization less optimal outcomes age five mediated conditional links disorganization less optimal executive functioning