Choose a Girl or Boy -A Study on Gender Selection for Partners in Peer Group Game

• Main Authors: LIN MEI LING, 林美伶
• Other Authors: 王珮玲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ygr4v2

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 102 === This study aims to explore differences in the factors that affect young children to choose gender of partners for peer group game. The individual interview method was adopted and samples for the study were a total of 120 young children, 60 boys and 60 girls, aged 5 to 7 years old from two public kindergartens and one elementary school. Study tools included “Play Situation Cards for Choices of Partners” and “Interview Questions for the Situation of Choice of Partners”. Two-way Anova was used to process data. In terms of judgment for young children to choose gender of partners, it is found that there is no gender difference, but there is age difference for them doing so because of different play situations; 5 year-old children are more easily to select same- gender partners. In terms of reason for young children to choose gender of partners, there are gender and age differences. Boys tend to choose the opposite gender for morality; 5 year-old children are easily to choose same- gender partners for social customs. The study results also indicate that young children choose opposite gender partners in order to be fair and select same- gender partners based on gender stereotypes and group identification. Discussions have been made for the aforementioned study results; hence, relevant suggestions have been made to provide parents, educators and researchers in the future with information for reference.