Dixon W E, Shore C
Department of Psychology, Miami University.
J Genet Psychol. 1991 Jun;152(2):191-205. doi: 10.1080/00221325.1991.9914666.
Researchers have examined symbolic play style as a qualitative variable distinguishing two groups of children: patterners and dramatists. We have conceptualized style not as a typology of children but as reflecting dimensions of difference between children which are amenable to quantitative analysis. For the construct of style to be invoked, it must be measurable by many variables, it must be observable over time, and it ought to be demonstrably independent of general developmental level. Fifteen boys and 15 girls were each seen twice, once at 21 months of age and again 6 weeks later. The Session 2 pattern of correlations among hypothesized dramatist measures was not entirely consistent with that observed at Session 1; however, three measures, narrative vocalizations, spontaneous play, and elicited-appropriate play were primary dramatist measures at both sessions.
研究人员将象征性游戏风格作为一个定性变量，用以区分两组儿童：模式型儿童和戏剧型儿童。我们将风格概念化为并非儿童的一种类型划分，而是反映儿童之间差异的维度，这些维度适合进行定量分析。要启用风格这一概念，它必须由多个变量来衡量，必须能随时间观察到，并且应该明显独立于一般发育水平。15名男孩和15名女孩各被观察两次，一次是在21个月大时，6周后再次观察。假设的戏剧型儿童测量指标在第二次观察时的相关模式与第一次观察时并不完全一致；然而，有三项测量指标，即叙事性发声、自发游戏和引发的适当游戏，在两次观察中都是主要的戏剧型儿童测量指标。
