Abstract
Families whose parents are both working have limited time in nurturing their children. This circumstance makes parents, especially mothers, alternate parenting to the babysitter or caring institution called daycare. This study aimed to analyze the correlation of children's characteristics, caregiver-child interaction, and attachment with the cognitive development of preschool children in daycare. This study used a cross-sectional study design with the daycare (TPA) selection as the research location carried out purposively located in the buffer areas of the capital city of DKI Jakarta. Respondents in this study were 39 children aged 2.5-6.4 years with complete parents and 16 caregivers from four selected TPA who interacted with their children daily. Data was collected by means of in-depth observations to measure the interaction variables between caregivers and children. This study indicates a positive correlation between caregiver-child interaction and attachment with a child's cognitive development. This study also found a significant positive relationship between the caregivers-child interaction with caregivers-child attachments and a significant negative relationship between the child's age and the caregivers-child attachment. This shows that interaction, and attachment between caregivers and children are important factors that can improve cognitive development while in TPA.
Highlights
In this era of globalization, a person's opportunity to work often no longer considers gender
This research found a significant positive relationship between caregiver attachment and children's cognitive development with a coefficient of r = 0.351 (p
These findings indicate that caregivers in daycare who can build good interactions and safe attachment with children will increase children's cognitive development
Summary
In this era of globalization, a person's opportunity to work often no longer considers gender. The rise of issues related to women's emancipation often causes the public's view of a mother who works to earn a living to help increase family income is familiar. An increase in the number of women entering the labour market in urban centres in various countries (Hansen and Hawkes 2009) due to economic factors and high self-actualization has led to a change in the role of women (Puspitawati, 2012). Compare to August 2014, the rate for women was 49.26 per cent and raised in the following year to 50.22 per cent. This fact proves that the number of women in Indonesia who work in the public sector increases every year
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