Negotiation and Enactment in Social Pretend Play [microform] : Relations to Social Acceptance and Social Cognition / Anna-Beth Doyle and Jennifer Connolly.
Theoretical conceptions of the value of social pretend play in the socialization process have focused on two potentially different mediating factors: play enactment and negotiation of the rules for play. In this study, observational measures of enactment were distinguished from negotiation so as to...
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| Summary: | Theoretical conceptions of the value of social pretend play in the socialization process have focused on two potentially different mediating factors: play enactment and negotiation of the rules for play. In this study, observational measures of enactment were distinguished from negotiation so as to examine their independent and joint relations to social adjustment, social acceptance, and social role-taking. Participants were 62 boys and girls who were observed during free play in their day care centers. Specifically examined were the differential relations of both explicit metacommunication about social pretend play and social pretend play enactments to social adjustment, social acceptance, and social cognition. Five measures of social competence were collected: a teacher rating of social adjustment, one teacher and two peer measures of popularity with peers, and a measure of social cognitive skill. Findings indicated that play enactment and negotiation of play were significant correlates of peer popularity as measured by peer likability ratings and by positive peer nominations. Pretend enactment accounted for more of the total variance than did negotiation. Enactment was significantly correlated with popularity independently of negotiation, but the reverse was not true. It is concluded that findings are consistent with traditional views emphasizing the functional significance of pretend transformations per se. (Author/RH) |
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| Item Description: | Sponsoring Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). ERIC Note: For related document, see edition 279 412. ERIC Document Number: ED286630. |
| Physical Description: | 24 pages. |
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