Gap-crossing behavior in a standardized and a nonstandardized jumping stone configuration.

ABSTRACT: Over the last years, the omnipresent standardization of playgrounds-the distances between, for example, jumping stones tend to be equal-has been criticized by both scientists and architects. First, it has been argued that standardization fails to do justice to the variability in the children's action capabilities. Second, it might simplify play in that children repetitively cross over the same distance and, thus, do not have to worry about their movements anymore. In the present study we examined the gap-crossing behavior of children in both a standardized and a nonstandardized jumping stone configuration. Children, between 5 and 10 years of age, were to play in each configuration for two minutes. No significant differences between the configurations were found in the number of gaps the ch

SUBMITTER: Sporrel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5414936 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature