The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the physical-contact play activities on young children's theory of mind and emotional executive ability.
To acquire the purpose of the study, study problems are as follows;
First, What is the ef...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the physical-contact play activities on young children's theory of mind and emotional executive ability.
To acquire the purpose of the study, study problems are as follows;
First, What is the effects of the physical-contact play activities on the young children's theory of mind?
Second, What is the effects of the physical-contact play activities on the young children's emotional executive ability ?
The participants were forty children of five years of age at two classes in the G daycare center located in G gu, Seoul. Two group of 20 5-year-old children were assigned as experimental and control group which are the homogeneity.
The first measuring tool of Theory of Mind was Content Exchange task by Taylor and Carlson(1997) and Location Shift task developed by Carlson and Moses(2001) and First/Second Order False Belief task included by Young-Ja Lee, Jong-suk Lee and Eun-Su Shin(2002).
The second measuring tool of Emotion Executive Ability was the Korean version(En-A Choi(2013)) of the Less Is More task for three and four-year-old children originally made by Carlson, Davis and Leach(2005) and Box Search task made by Simpson and Riggs(2007).
A pretest was conducted for measuring the experimental and control group's homogeneity. the experimental group carried out the physical-contact play activities developed by the researcher, wheres the control group carried out gross-motor physical play activities. the study had been conducted for 30 minutes twice a week 12 times from August 11 by September 30 in 2014 for 8 weeks. The two group's theory of mind, emotional executive ability were examined before and after carrying out the experiment. the process of this study is Pre-Experimental Test, Experimental Treatment and Post-test. Post-test were conducted with the same tool and method as pretest and experimental trial.
SPSS version 18.0 was employed as a statistical software to analyze the collected data to study of The physical-contact play activities effect young children's theory of mind and emotional executive ability. The average scores and standard deviations were calculated for the experimental and control groups the difference between two groups was t-test.
The result of this research is summarized as follows;
First, the physical-contact play activities influenced with positive effect on the total theory of mind of children. Looking more in detail, the experimental group with physical-contact play activities showed statistically profound and increase rate than control group in young children's theory of mind, this is, “3 sub-categorized items of Content Exchange task, Location Shift task, First/Second Order False Belief task" after experimental trial.
Therefore, the research question 1 was proved positively.
Second, the physical-contact play activities influenced with positive effect on the emotional executive ability of 5-year-old children. Looking more in detail, the experimental group with physical-contact play activities showed statistically profound and increase rate than control group in young children's emotional executive ability development, this is, “2 sub-categorized items of the Less Is More task and Box Search task" after experimental trial.
Therefore, the research question 2 was proved positively
In conclusion, the research showed that the physical-contact play activities developed by the research had the positive effect in the young children's theory of mind and emotional executive ability.
This results suggests that the physical-contact play activity developed by the researcher can be available in the early childhood education field for improving children's theory of mind and emotional executive ability.