Author : Elizabeth Mary Hemphill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (986 download)
Book Synopsis Examining Social Development in Young Children Within a Natural Play Context by : Elizabeth Mary Hemphill
Download or read book Examining Social Development in Young Children Within a Natural Play Context written by Elizabeth Mary Hemphill and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored social behaviors of infants and toddlers as they develop within the natural environment. The purpose was to increase our understanding of social development, which, in the future, could be used to help develop methods to identify young children who may be at-risk for future social concerns. Caregiver rating scales are the primary tools used to measure social behavior in early childhood. Few systematic direct observation systems exist to observe the social behaviors of young children within their natural environments. The majority of current observation measures monitor social interactions between peers, not between children and their caregivers; in addition, they focus on preschool age children (i.e., three to five years old), not infants and toddlers. To begin to address these gaps in the available observation measures, this study identified social behaviors based on the literature and the bioecological model, that were thought to represent social behaviors that emerge in early childhood. These behaviors were further explored, grouped into four categories (i.e., No Acknowledgement, Acknowledgement, Attention Seeking, Engagement), and operational definitions were developed by watching 15 video recordings of children ages 12, 24, and 36 months (5 video observations per age group) during a naturalistic play observation with their caregiver. Then, the identified four categories of behaviors were recorded using a 10-second partial interval coding system during a 14-minute video recording of 75 children ages 12, 24, and 36 months during play with their caregivers. Every sixth interval (once per minute) caregiver social behavior was recorded. Results from a repeated measures analysis of variance indicated a significant interaction between the four social categories and age, F (4.98, 179.24) = 21.76, p