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LEVEL OF CHILDREN'S PLAY AS EXPRESSED IN GROUP SIZE
Author(s) -
EIFERMANN RIVKA R.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1970.tb02116.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , correlation , positive correlation , group (periodic table) , social psychology , chemistry , organic chemistry , medicine , geometry , mathematics
S ummary . From the initially plausible general conception that the level of playing games which children are able to attain is positively correlated with their actual level of intellectual abilities and social skills, it was deduced that there should be a positive correlation between group size in children's games, on the one hand, and their age and socio‐economic status, on the other. Two specific hypotheses were formulated to this effect. These hypotheses were tested through processing recordings of observations of over 6,000 Israeli children at play. The observations lasted for over one year and the cumulative total of players recorded amounted to more than 100,000 participants. It was found that group size tends to increase with both age and socio‐economic level and that the most frequent group size is two, with the exception of top grade high socio‐economic level children, for whom the dominant group size is four.