幼儿自由游戏行为性别差异的观察研究

以35名幼儿园大班儿童为被观察对象,采用录像观察法考察了幼儿自由游戏行为的类型及其性别差异。结果表明,在儿童的社会参与范畴游戏中,平行游戏最多,其次是集体游戏和单独游戏,性别差异不显著;在儿童的认知游戏中自多到少依次为建筑游戏、表演游戏、机能游戏和规则游戏,而且在机能游戏上存在显著的性别差异。儿童的同性别的社会互动对象显著多于异性别的社会互动对象。这说明儿童的自由游戏行为与其性别存在密切关系。

AN OBSERVATIVE STUDY OF THE GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE PRESCHOOL CHILDREN' FREE PLAY

Videotapes ware used to observe the gender differences in preschool children' free-play in classroom settings. The subjects were 35 six-year-old preschool children. The results indicated that the most frequent play of social participation was parallel play, the second was group and the third was solitary. There was no significant gender differences in social participation. As regards the cognitive play, the most frequent play was contractive play, the second was symbolic play, the third was functional play and the last was games-with-rules. Significant gender differences were found in cignitive play. All the children were more likely to play with same sex peers than with opposite sex peers.