Fung, Wing Kai and Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa (2023) Playfulness as the Antecedent of Kindergarten Children’s Prosocial Skills and School Readiness. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. ISSN 1350-293X (Accepted for Publication)
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Abstract
This study examined the interrelationships among playfulness, prosocial skills, and school readiness of Hong Kong kindergarten children across time. Participants were 106 local children (55.6% boys, mean age = 60.0 months) and their parents and teachers. At time 1, parents reported their child’s age, gender, and playfulness. Six months later at time 2, teachers reported children’s prosocial skills and school readiness. The structural equation model revealed that children’s playfulness at time 1 significantly predicted their prosocial skills at time 2, and that their prosocial skills and school readiness at time 2 were positively associated. The indirect relationship between playfulness and school readiness as mediated through prosocial skills was significant, whereas the direct relationship was non-significant. These findings suggest that children’s playfulness may contribute to school readiness by fostering prosocial skills. Practically, results highlight the utility of promoting children’s playfulness and prosocial skills to support their formal school transition.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Wing Kai Fung |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2023 09:58 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 13:26 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3785 |
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