This study focuses on Switzerland where child-care is limited in offer and costly. It examines what child-care patterns parents of 0- to 4-years old children use; and, how different arrangements relate to several domains of mothers’ and fathers’ cognitive and affective subjective well-being (SWB). A major contribution of the present study is the distinction between child-care provided by parents, grandparents, relatives, formal institutions and mixed arrangements. Based on data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) from 2002 to 2017, multilevel regression models are applied to estimate the relationship between child-care arrangements and both parents’ SWB. The results demonstrate that grandparental care relates positively to both parents’ SWB: Compared to grandparental child-care, relatives and formal or mixed child-care arrangements tend to decrease most of the satisfaction dimensions. Formal child-care and child-care provided by relatives as well as mixed arrangements relate to a decrease in positive affect. Negative affect is not significantly associated to the different child-care arrangements.

这项研究的重点是瑞士，那里的儿童保育服务有限且成本高昂。它检查了 0 至 4 岁儿童的父母使用的育儿模式；以及不同的安排如何与母亲和父亲的认知和情感主观幸福感（SWB）的几个领域相关。本研究的一个主要贡献是区分父母、祖父母、亲属、正规机构和混合安排提供的儿童保育。根据瑞士家庭小组 (SHP) 2002 年至 2017 年的数据，应用多层次回归模型来估计托儿安排与父母双方的 SWB 之间的关系。结果表明，祖父母照料与父母双方的 SWB 呈正相关：与祖父母照料相比，亲属和正式或混合的托儿安排往往会降低大部分满意度。正式的儿童保育和亲属提供的儿童保育以及混合安排与积极影响的减少有关。负面影响与不同的儿童保育安排没有显着关联。