Deng Chenhao, Zhao Zhiyi, Ahmad Noorhani Nur Maizura, Mustapha Arniatul Aiza
College of Built Environment, Universiti of Technologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
Department of Interior Design, College of Art and Design, Jiangxi Institution of Fashion Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 17;15:1463151. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1463151. eCollection 2024.
Ecological psychology is an approach focused on the perception and behavior of organisms and environments, offering psychological insights for research on children. This study primarily explored the concepts of affordance and behavior setting based on an eco-psychological perspective concerning children's behaviors and environment. Through a review of previous studies, we differentiated that affordance theory emphasizes children's direct perceptions of environmental functions, whereas the concept of behavior setting highlights the dyadic relationship between long-term behaviors and environmental material features. However, existing studies on child-environment interactions often overlook children's immediate actions in the context of affordance theory and fail to account for the dynamic nature of behavior settings. By integrating the distinctive traits of both theories, this study proposes an anticipatory framework based on ecological psychology to guide research on children's environments, particularly within the indoor spaces of childcare facilities. Future studies should investigate the connections within this framework through field studies of childcare center environments and observations of children's actions and behaviors during free play to assess congruence with environmental affordances.
生态心理学是一种专注于有机体与环境的感知和行为的研究方法，为儿童研究提供心理学见解。本研究主要基于生态心理学视角，探讨了关于儿童行为与环境的可供性和行为场景概念。通过回顾以往研究，我们区分出可供性理论强调儿童对环境功能的直接感知，而行为场景概念则突出长期行为与环境物质特征之间的二元关系。然而，现有的关于儿童与环境互动的研究往往忽视了可供性理论背景下儿童的即时行动，且未能考虑行为场景的动态性质。通过整合这两种理论的独特特征，本研究提出了一个基于生态心理学的预期框架，以指导对儿童环境的研究，特别是在儿童保育设施的室内空间方面。未来的研究应通过对儿童保育中心环境的实地研究以及对儿童自由玩耍时的行动和行为观察，来调查该框架内的联系，以评估与环境可供性的一致性。
