Publications

Information about selected journal articles, papers, and other documents authored or formally reviewed by MFRI researchers and other staff:

Staffing Your Child Care Center: A Theoretical and Practical Approach (2003)

This report examines the situation in early childhood care and education, reviews recent studies that address the issues surrounding staff turnover in the early childhood care and education profession, outlines specific contributors to turnover, and attempts to align the causes of turnover with strategies to prevent future turnover from occurring.

Communication and connection during deployment: A daily-diary study from the perspective of at-home partners (2017)

In this study, 87 partners of deployed National Guard service members completed daily diaries, recording their entries for seven consecutive days on the same channels each time they communicated with their service member. Findings indicated that across the week partners who reported their service member provided them with higher levels of support and made decisions together more often as a couple felt more connected to their service member.