Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development

IF 3.9 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Child development Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI:10.1111/cdev.14238

Marigen Narea, Pamela Soto‐Ramírez, Alejandra Abufhele

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Abstract

The Covid‐19 pandemic underscored the significance of early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children's development. We investigated the impact of attendance at ECEC programs following a closure period due to the pandemic. We used linear regression with a lagged dependent variable to examine assessments of children's cognitive and receptive language based on a sample of Chilean children (N = 809; age = 41.3 months in 2021). Results show that children who attended center‐based care for more than 20 h a week demonstrated higher cognitive and receptive language levels than those who did not attend (3.2 and 2.9 points higher, respectively). Furthermore, our results highlight the importance of the intensity of attendance at ECEC programs for children's development.

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Covid - 19大流行期间托儿中心出勤率：促进认知和语言发展

2019冠状病毒病大流行凸显了幼儿教育和护理（ECEC）对儿童发展的重要性。我们调查了因大流行而关闭一段时间后ECEC项目出勤率的影响。我们使用滞后因变量的线性回归来检验基于智利儿童样本的儿童认知和接受语言的评估(N = 809；2021年为41.3个月)。结果显示，每周参加以中心为基础的护理超过20小时的儿童比没有参加的儿童表现出更高的认知和接受语言水平（分别高出3.2和2.9分）。此外，我们的研究结果强调了参加ECEC项目的强度对儿童发展的重要性。

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Child development Multiple-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

149

期刊介绍： As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Child Development Perspectives and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.