Stress during transition from home to public childcare

IF 1.7 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
L. Ahnert, Tina Eckstein-Madry, W. Datler, Felix Deichmann, Bernhard Piskernik
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Abstract

Abstract Four saliva probes were collected per day from 104 children (10 to 35 months old) transitioning from home (T0) to childcare across a four-month period (until T3), resulting in over one thousand cortisol values. Latent Profile Analysis classified three profiles within a regular spectrum of children’s cortisol rhythms and described a fourth hypocortisol stress profile. Further Latent Transition Analysis revealed that profiles frequently changed across the transition but stabilized at T3. Most importantly, regular profiles across transition most likely occurred with high AQS scores of mother-child and care provider–child attachment. A machine learning procedure (XGBoost) featured predictors for stress profiles at T3 (when the child ought to be adjusted and stress profiles should be rare) referring to characteristics of the children (e.g., gender, number of siblings, peer contact before entry), the mothers (their worries), the care providers (their work experience, engagement, attachment) and the groups in the childcare centers (e.g., size, age differences, illness frequency). As a result, experience with siblings and peers before entry facilitated the transition. However, most conditions not linearly affecting children’s cortisol revealed even opposite effects when analyzed at different times. For example, smaller group size and large age-differences at T1 helped the child to stabilize a Regular profile, perhaps due to better control over the situation and greater support from the older children in the group. At T3, however, Regular profiles were associated with larger group size and smaller age-differences which might be helpful for establishing close peer relationships to buffer stress.
从家庭托儿所过渡到公共托儿所期间的压力
摘要每天从104名儿童(10至35岁)身上采集4个唾液探针 几个月大)在四个月的时间里(直到T3)从家(T0)过渡到照顾孩子,导致皮质醇值超过1000。潜在特征分析将儿童皮质醇节律的三个特征分类为规则谱,并描述了第四个皮质醇压力特征。进一步的潜在转变分析显示,在整个转变过程中,剖面经常发生变化,但在T3时稳定下来。最重要的是,过渡期的常规情况很可能发生在母亲和护理提供者-儿童依恋的AQS分数较高的情况下。机器学习程序(XGBoost)的特点是预测T3时的压力状况(当孩子应该被调整,压力状况应该是罕见的),参考孩子的特征(例如,性别、兄弟姐妹的数量、进入前的同伴接触)、母亲(他们的担忧),护理提供者(他们的工作经验、参与度、依恋度)和儿童保育中心的群体(例如,规模、年龄差异、患病频率)。因此,入职前与兄弟姐妹和同龄人相处的经历促进了这一转变。然而,当在不同时间进行分析时,大多数对儿童皮质醇没有线性影响的情况甚至显示出相反的影响。例如,在T1时,较小的群体规模和较大的年龄差异有助于孩子稳定常规档案,这可能是因为更好地控制了这种情况,并得到了该群体中年龄较大的孩子的更多支持。然而,在T3,有规律的概况与较大的群体规模和较小的年龄差异有关,这可能有助于建立密切的同伴关系来缓冲压力。
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Applied Developmental Science
Applied Developmental Science PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
CiteScore
12.00
自引率
2.60%
发文量
23
期刊介绍: The focus of this multidisciplinary journal is the synthesis of research and application to promote positive development across the life span and across the globe. The journal publishes research that generates descriptive and explanatory knowledge about dynamic and reciprocal person-environment interactions essential to informed public dialogue, social policy, and preventive and development optimizing interventions. This includes research relevant to the development of individuals and social systems across the life span -- including the wide range of familial, biological, societal, cultural, physical, ecological, political and historical settings of human development.
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