Playfulness of Pre-School Children in Turkey

Autor/in	Bay, Dondu Neslihan
Titel	Playfulness of Pre-School Children in Turkey
Quelle	In: International Online Journal of Primary Education, 10 (2021) 1, S.119-136 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bay, Dondu Neslihan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1300-915X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Play; Child Behavior; Student Characteristics; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Employed Parents; Occupations; Family Structure; Psychological Patterns; Humor; Physical Activities; Cognitive Processes; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Spiel; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Beruf; Berufsumfeld; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Humoristische Darstellung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Türkei
Abstract	In this research, the playfulness of 4- and 5-years-old 181 children, 100 boys and 81 girls, attending a kindergarten in Turkey, was examined. The research was designed according to relational-correlational survey/research model, one of the quantitative research methods; the data were collected using Personal Information Form and Children's Playfulness Scale (CPS) developed by Barnett (1990) and adapted to Turkish by Keles and Yurt (2017). The playfulness levels of the children were analyzed according to gender, age, number of children in the family, duration of pre-school education, mother's/father's age and education level, mother's working status, and father's profession. To identify the playfulness levels of pre-school children, descriptive statistics and difference statistics were calculated for both overall and each sub-dimension according to the demographic characteristics of the children. As a result of the study, the playfulness levels of the children were found to be high and physical spontaneity was observed to be the playfulness characteristic with the highest score. Significant differences were observed in playfulness of children according to age and duration of pre-school education; whereas no significant difference was observed according to gender, mother's/father's age and education level, mother's working status, and father's profession. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Online Journal of Primary Education. e-mail: editor.online.iojpe@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.iojpe.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01