Children’s involvement in home-based childcare: are boys more susceptible to caregiver sensitivity than girls?

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptives of caregiver and child background variables and Pearson correlations with caregiver sensitivity, global quality, and child involvement.

	Descriptives		Pearson Correlations
	M	(SD)	Caregiver Sensitivity	Global quality	Child Involvement
Caregivers (n = 103)
Age^a	43.16	(9.17)	.12	−.01	.20*
Education^a	12.32	(2.00)	.15	.19*	.02
Experience in childcare^a	6.07	(4.92)	.08	.01	−.03
Working hours^b	33.49	(11.60)	−.14	.20*	.20*
Caregiver sensitivity	4.80	(0.85)		.28**	.16*
Global quality	0.86	(0.07)	.28**		.05
Children (n = 163)
Age^c	27.28	(9.55)	.03	.06	−.30*
Time spent at childcare^c	20.18	(7.61)	−.09	−.01	−.13
Child involvement	2.79	(0.54)	.16*	.05
Group
Number of children	3.11	(1.44)	−.02	.12	−.28**
Percentage of boys	.53	(.33)	−.13	−.05	.01

^ain years ^bin hours per week ^cin months.

*p < .05.

Figure 1. The association between caregiver sensitivity and child involvement for boys and girls.

Table 2. Regression analyses: predicting children’s involvement.

	Step 1 (R^2 = 0.04)				Step 2 (R^2 = 0.07)
	B	SEB	β	p	B	SEB	β	p
Constant	2.79	0.04		.00	2.28	0.04		.00
Child Gender	−0.12	0.09	−0.11	.16	−0.12	0.08	−0.11	.16
Caregiver Sensitivity	0.12	0.05	0.18	.03	0.11	0.05	0.17	.04
Global Quality	0.04	0.62	0.01	.96	0.04	0.62	0.01	0.95
Gender * Sensitivity					−0.23	0.10	−0.17	.03