Child Care as an Adult Work Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10223154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Phillips (0000-0003-3496-2120), Deborah A Phillips (0000-0002-2068-5604, University of Virginia, corresponding author), Carollee Howes (0000-0001-5902-7855, University of California, Los Angeles), Marcy Whitebook |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 49-70 |
| Publication date | 1991-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1991.tb00287.x |
| OpenAlex | W2078101984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 14 |
A sample of 1307 center‐based child care staff was studied to assess predictors of job satisfaction and turnover, and to link these aspects of the adult work environment of child care to the quality of care, as assessed from a child development perspective. The staff were well educated in comparison to the female labor force, but they earned, on average, poverty‐level wages. High levels of career orientation and satisfaction with the day‐to‐day demands of child care work were expressed, alongside high intended and actual turnover rates, and very low satisfaction with salaries, benefits, and social status. Job satisfaction was significantly, but modestly, associated with wages, paid preparation time, reduced‐fee child care, and the quality of provisions for adult needs. Staff wages were the most important negative predictor of staff turnover and positive predictor of the quality of care provided to the children. The results highlight the need to incorporate facets of the adult work environment in research on the developmental effects of child care and in policy efforts to upgrade the quality of care
Business · Child care · Day care · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Job satisfaction · Management · Poverty · Quality (philosophy · Sample (material · Turnover · Work (physics · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Retaining Early Childhood Education Workers
Teachers’ Social–Emotional Capacity
Employees' Intentions to Remain Employed in Child Welfare
Early Academic Achievement of Hispanics in the United States
Retaining Early Childcare Educators
Child care workers' wages
It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade
It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade”
The changing experience of child care
Multiple correlates of burnout in child care workers
The prediction of process quality from structural features of child care
Intention to leave, anticipated reasons for leaving, and 12-month turnover of child care center staff
Within and beyond the classroom door
Cash incentives and turnover in center-based child care staff
Hidden fragility
Multiple determinants of caregiver behavior in child care centers
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network
New wine in old bottles
Teacher education, motivation, compensation, workplace support, and links to quality of center-based child care and teachers’ intention to stay in the early childhood profession
Child care providers’ emotional distress links stressors to turnover intention
Avoiding the sharp tongue
The Production of Quality in Child-Care Centers
Antecedents to Retention and Turnover among Child Welfare, Social Work, and Other Human Service Employees
The Work of Caring for Children
The influence of job satisfaction on child welfare worker's desire to stay
The retention of public child welfare workers
Perceptions of child care centre owners in Chicago
The social policy context of child care
Care and Kinship
The Relation Between Market Forces and Employee Motivation
Fatalities and the Organization of Child Care in the United States, 1985-2003
Manufacturing Motherhood
Professional burnout in human service organizations
Employee Turnover
Caregivers' perceptions of working conditions in a child care environment
Can the age of entry into child care and the quality of child care predict adjustment in kindergarten
Caregiver stability and day care
Relations between early child care and schooling
Effect of quality of day care environment on children's language development
Child's play with adults, toys, and peers
Stress and burnout in the human service professions
Work Values and Job Rewards
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |