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A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of Children's Playground Games in Primary School: Implications for Adjustment to School and Social Adjustment in the USA and the UK

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Pellegrini, Anthony D.; Blatchford, Peter; Kato, Kentaro; Baines, Ed – Social Development, 2004

In this study we described development of boys' and girls' games on the school playground at recess as they progressed across the first year of primary school in London (UK) and Minneapolis (USA) in order to document age-related trends in games during this period and to examine the predictive role of games in children's adjustment to school and…

Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Adjustment, Developmental Tasks, Longitudinal Studies