Flouri, Eirini;
Mueller, Marie;
Idsøe, Thormod;
Nærde, Ane;
(2022)
Outdoor play areas in childcare settings and children’s physical aggression: A longitudinal study of Norwegian kindergartens.
European Journal of Developmental Psychology
10.1080/17405629.2022.2087628.
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Abstract
We investigated the role of physical characteristics of kindergartens’ outdoor play areas in teacher-rated physical aggression (PAgg) among 423 children followed annually from ages two to four years. We used data from the Behaviour Outlook Norwegian Developmental Study which follows children from southeast Norway, a country where almost all two- to fouryear-old children attend kindergartens. Nesting children in kindergartens, we found two significant associations after adjustment for family selection. First, children in kindergartens with more ‘secret places’ in their outdoor play areas (where they could play undisturbed) had more PAgg at baseline. Second, children in kindergartens with more adult supervision of their use of outdoor play material showed a less steep decrease in PAgg over time. If causal, these associations would suggest that children in kindergartens should not play completely unmonitored but also that teachers should not control children’s outdoor play excessively.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Outdoor play areas in childcare settings and children’s physical aggression: A longitudinal study of Norwegian kindergartens |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17405629.2022.2087628 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2022.2087628 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Outdoor play areas; kindergartens; preschoolers; aggression |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150636 |
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