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ABSTRACT
Participants (N = 226; Mage = 27.2) completed questionnaires about their care history, attitudes toward non-parental care and maternal employment, their preference for working from home, and demographic characteristics. Overall, attitudes toward non-parental care and maternal employment skewed in a positive direction. More time spent in non-parental care in childhood predicted a higher degree of openness to placing future children in non-parental care. Participants showed a preference for the type of childcare they experienced as children. Female participants with a history of non-parental childcare reported significantly more positive attitudes toward non-parental care. Gender, but not history of care, predicted attitudes toward maternal employment, with females reporting significantly more positive attitudes toward maternal employment than males. A negative correlation was observed between preference for working from home and non-parental care openness. Trait agreeableness positively correlated with attitudes toward daycare and maternal employment.
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Noam Shpancer
Noam Shpancer is a professor of psychology at Otterbein University.
Samuel Degenhard
Samuel Degenhard graduated from Otterbein University with a BA in psychology and is currently a research fellow at the national Institute of Health.
Maisie Snell
Maisie Snell graduated from Otterbein University with a BS in psychology.
Alexi Baron
Alexi Baron graduated from Otterbein University with a BA in psychology.
Genevieve Eversole
Genevieve Eversole graduated from Otterbein University with a BA in psychology.
Halle Troutman
Halle Troutman graduated from Otterbein University with a BA in psychology.