Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses

IF 2.4 2区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Asami Shinohara, Miyabi Narazaki, Tessei Kobayashi
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Knowing a child’s affiliative feelings about a peer helps us understand child’s social behavior toward peers and can predict how a relationship between two children would continue. A picture-drawing task, in which a child draws himself or herself and a peer, is a potentially valid way to measure a child’s feelings of affiliation toward the peer. In this study, we established the validity of the picture-drawing task by testing two hypotheses: whether a child’s higher affiliation toward a peer would relate to a shorter distance between the drawn child and the drawn peer (Hypothesis a) and whether the child’s temporal variation of affiliation would relate to a change in the distance between two drawn figures across two time points (Hypothesis b). Forty-five children aged 3 to 6 attending the same nursery school in Japan drew pictures of themselves and a schoolmate. To determine who would draw whom in the picture-drawing task, we conducted a friend-nomination task and used social network analyses with such data to compute each child’s degree of affiliation toward every schoolmate. The analyses supported both hypotheses: the distance in the drawing was shorter when the children drew a high-affiliation peer than a low-affiliation peer, and the distance in the picture became longer as the child’s affiliation toward a peer decreased over time. Our results strengthen the validity of the picture-drawing task for measuring children’s affiliation toward a peer.
儿童将喜欢的同伴画在图片上:图片绘画任务和社交网络分析的纵向证据
了解儿童对同伴的归属感有助于我们了解儿童对同伴的社交行为,并能预测两个儿童之间的关系将如何继续。儿童画自己和同伴的图画任务是测量儿童对同伴归属感的潜在有效方法。在本研究中,我们通过检验两个假设来确定画图任务的有效性:儿童对同伴的较高从属感是否与所画儿童和所画同伴之间的距离较短有关(假设 a);儿童从属感的时间变化是否与两个时间点上所画两幅图之间距离的变化有关(假设 b)。在日本同一所幼儿园就读的 45 名 3 至 6 岁儿童画了自己和一名同学。为了确定在画图任务中谁会画谁,我们进行了一项朋友提名任务,并利用这些数据进行社会网络分析,计算出每个孩子对每个同学的从属关系程度。分析结果支持了两个假设:当孩子们画的是高亲和度的同学时,画中的距离比低亲和度的同学短;随着时间的推移,孩子们对同学的亲和度降低,画中的距离也会变长。我们的研究结果加强了画图任务在测量儿童对同伴归属感方面的有效性。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Behavioral Development is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, which exists to promote the discovery, dissemination and application of knowledge about developmental processes at all stages of the life span - infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The Journal is already the leading international outlet devoted to reporting interdisciplinary research on behavioural development, and has now, in response to the rapidly developing fields of behavioural genetics, neuroscience and developmental psychopathology, expanded its scope to these and other related new domains of scholarship. In this way, it provides a truly world-wide platform for researchers which can facilitate a greater integrated lifespan perspective. In addition to original empirical research, the Journal also publishes theoretical and review papers, methodological papers, and other work of scientific interest that represents a significant advance in the understanding of any aspect of behavioural development. The Journal also publishes papers on behaviour development research within or across particular geographical regions. Papers are therefore considered from a wide range of disciplines, covering all aspects of the lifespan. Articles on topics of eminent current interest, such as research on the later life phases, biological processes in behaviour development, cross-national, and cross-cultural issues, and interdisciplinary research in general, are particularly welcome.
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