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Free-Play Behaviors in Preschool and Kindergarten Children

Kenneth H. Rubin, Kathryn S. Watson, Thomas W. Jambor·1978·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1978.tb02350.x
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RUBIN, KENNETH H.; WATSON, KATHRYN S.; and JAMBOR, THOMAS W. Free-Play Behaviors in Preschool and Kindergarten Children. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1978, 49, 534-536. The present study concerned age differences in the social and cognitive play of children. It was revealed that kindergarten children displayed less unoccupied, onlooker, solitary, and functional activity and more group and4ramatic play than preschoolers. Examination of the combined PartenSmilansky Play Scale revealed preschoolers to engage in significantly more solitary-functional and parallel-functional play and in less parallel-constructive, parallel-dramatic, and group dramatic play than their kindergarten counterparts.

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Authors
Rubin, K. H., Watson, K. S., & Jambor, T. W.
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1978-06-01
Volume
49
Issue
2
Pages
534-534
ISSN
0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1978.tb02350.x
OpenAlex
W1997824889
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journal article
Language
en
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