Associations of Caregiver Stress with Working Conditions, Caregiving Practices, and Child Behaviour in Home-Based Child Care

Autor/inn/en	Rusby, Julie C.; Jones, Laura Backen; Crowley, Ryann; Smolkowski, Keith
Titel	Associations of Caregiver Stress with Working Conditions, Caregiving Practices, and Child Behaviour in Home-Based Child Care
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 183 (2013) 11, S.1589-1604 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2012.742992
Schlagwörter	Child Caregivers; Stress Variables; Work Environment; Correlation; Child Behavior; Behavior Problems; Caregiver Child Relationship; Questionnaires; Measures (Individuals); Likert Scales; Predictor Variables; Multiple Regression Analysis; Oregon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Arbeitsmilieu; Korrelation; Fragebogen; Messdaten; Likert-Skala; Prädiktor
Abstract	Home-based child caregivers face unique stressors related to the nature of their work. One hundred and fifty-five home-based child care providers in Oregon, USA, participated in this cross-sectional correlational study. We investigated associations between indicators of caregiver stress and child care working conditions, the quality of caregiver practices, frequency of child behaviour challenges, and caregivers' tolerance for those behaviours. Levels of stress in this sample were moderate to low. Significant associations were found between greater caregiver stress with higher child-caregiver ratio, working in isolation, less frequently observed caregiver positive attention, more caregiver-reported child problem behaviours and lower tolerance for problem behaviours. A multiple regression analysis with these variables significantly contributed to 23% of the variance of caregiver stress. Number of hours worked, observed caregiver negative attention, and responsiveness to children were not associated with caregiver stress. Implications of these findings and the need for future studies are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10