Children's wellbeing and cortisol levels in home-based and center-based childcare

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 502-514

  Groeneveld, Marleen G ^a   Vermeer, Harriet J ^a   van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Linting, Mariëlle ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caregiver sensitivity; Center based childcare; Home based childcare; Quality of care; Salivary cortisol; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957726042     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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