University of Wisconsin.
Yale University.
Child Dev. 2017 Sep;88(5):1419-1434. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12897. Epub 2017 Jul 14.
Parental attitudes shape play opportunities afforded to children in home, community, and school settings. This study presents evaluation of an intervention designed to enrich parent's conception of play and its relationship with socially valued skills and capacities. On the basis of data from 291 racially and ethnically diverse parents/caregivers of young children (median age between 3 and 6) attending an event in NYC, we find the intervention helped parents conceptualize play in complex ways and altered perceptions of its impact on children's current-but not future-lives. Multivariate analyses reveal the causal pathway for these changes as exposure to multiple play sites, rather than time at the event-a finding with direct implications for exposing parents to developmental science in community settings.
父母的态度塑造了孩子在家、社区和学校环境中获得的游戏机会。本研究评估了一项旨在丰富父母对游戏的概念及其与社会重视的技能和能力关系的干预措施。基于在纽约市参加活动的 291 名不同种族和民族的幼儿父母/照顾者（中位数年龄在 3 至 6 岁之间）的数据，我们发现该干预措施帮助父母以复杂的方式理解游戏，并改变了他们对游戏对孩子当前但不是未来生活影响的看法。多变量分析揭示了这些变化的因果途径是接触多个游戏场所，而不是在活动中的时间，这一发现对在社区环境中向父母介绍发展科学具有直接意义。
