The purpose of this study was to investigate what themetic-fantasy play effected the prosocial behavior of young children. The subjects of this study were 56 young children selected from two classes of S kindergarten located in J City, Jeon buk Provin...
The purpose of this study was to investigate what themetic-fantasy play effected the prosocial behavior of young children. The subjects of this study were 56 young children selected from two classes of S kindergarten located in J City, Jeon buk Province and they belonged to middle socioeconomic level of families. young children's were randomly divided into test group (12 male young children's and 16 female young children's) and control group (12 male young children's and 16 female young children's) and their mean age was six years.
Perspective taking test tool of pro social behavior of Yound-Suk Bahk(1987), which was designed based on Iannotti task, Bar-Tal task was used in assessment of prosocial behavior. To perform themetic-fantasy play activity, twelve scenarios were selected to help the subject to help others and each of the scenario was executed every week for twelve weeks. In terms of data analysis, marks of prosocial behavior test were obtained from test group and control group and, with calculation of average marks and standard variation, t-test was performed.
The result of this study is as following: The themetic-fantasy play with plot was effective for the enhance of young children's pro social behavior.