title: Early Nonparental Care and Social Behavior in Elementary School: Support for a Social Group Adaptation Hypothesis.
abstract: This study examined the contribution of nonparental child-care services received during the preschool years to the development of social behavior between kindergarten and the end of elementary school with a birth cohort from Québec, Canada (N = 1,544). Mothers reported on the use of child-care services, while elementary school teachers rated children's shyness, social withdrawal, prosociality, opposition, and aggression. Children who received nonparental child-care services were less shy, less socially withdrawn, more oppositional, and more aggressive at school entry (age 6 years). However, these differences disappeared during elementary school as children who received exclusive parental care caught up with those who received nonparental care services. This "catch-up" effect from the perspective of children's adaptation to the social group is discussed.
authors.affiliation: University College London.
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Pingault
authors.affiliation: University College Dublin.|University of Montreal.
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.affiliation: University of Montreal.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vitaro
authors.affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal.
authors.forename: Christa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Japel
authors.affiliation: Université Laval.|Tomsk State University.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boivin
authors.affiliation: Université Laval.|Tomsk State University.
authors.forename: Sylvana M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Côté
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000374:Aggression; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002654:Child Care / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011792:Quebec; D012042:Registries; D012792:Shyness; D012919:Social Behavior