Longitudinal relations between household chaos and children’s subsequent social and cognitive outcomes at age-five are conditional on early childcare exposure.
Spending greater amounts of time in childcare attenuates the ‘detrimental’ association between household chaos and several social and cognitive outcomes.
These attenuated relations may be explained by the role that childcare exposure plays in mitigating the detrimental effect of household chaos on executive functioning.
The respective effects of caregiver responsivity and childcare type were somewhat mixed across outcomes, yet largely consistent with the extant literature.