Child's environmental cognition and peer relations in indoor and outdoor preschool settings

本研究考察了儿童日常生活中室内和室外游戏的对应关系。研究人员调查了儿童是否在任何环境下都保持着参与某种特定类型游戏的倾向，或者他们是否会根据环境改变游戏类型以寻求新鲜感。结果表明，儿童在不考虑情境的情况下不会保持固定的游戏行为；相反，他们的游戏会随着游戏背景的变化而发生很大的变化。此外，每个年龄组的变化都有质的差异，这是基于环境的。因此，对于儿童设施来说，有几个不同的游戏设置是很重要的，这样才能给儿童的游戏行为带来变化。

This study examined the correspondence between indoor and outdoor play in children's daily life. It was investigated whether children maintained the tendency to engage in a particular type of play, irrespective of the environment, or whether they changed the type of play according to the environment in order to seek novelty. The results indicate that children do not maintain fixed play behavior without taking into consideration the situation; on the contrary, their play changes greatly in accordance with the play setting. Furthermore, for each age group there is a qualitative difference in the change, which is based on the setting. Therefore, it is important for children's facilities to have several different play settings so as to bring about changes in the children's play behavior.