Abstract
This study aimed at verifying whether young children's self-regulation and adaptive behaviors in kindergarten could be improved through group game play.
The subjects of the study consisted of five-year-old kindergarteners in D Metropolita...
Abstract
This study aimed at verifying whether young children's self-regulation and adaptive behaviors in kindergarten could be improved through group game play.
The subjects of the study consisted of five-year-old kindergarteners in D Metropolitan City. The experimental group contained 20 children doing group game play, and the comparison group or the control group included 20 children doing physical activity play. A total of 16 sessions were performed on the two groups for nine weeks (two sessions per week).
The pre- and post-tests of the study were conducted using self-regulation assessment and a scale of adaptive behaviors in kindergarten. In addition, ANCOVA was carried out using SPSS 19.0 program to statistically prove the effect of the program.
The research findings and conclusions were as follows:
First, both the experimental group which had participated in group game play and the comparison group which had done physical activity play showed improvement in self-regulation. Especially the group who had done group game play showed overall more improvement than the group which had performed physical activity play.
Second, both the experimental group and the comparison group showed improvement in adaptive behaviors in kindergarten. Specifically, children displayed overall more improvement when they did group game play than when they performed physical activity play.