2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Children's acquisition of meal-time scripts during family interactions.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22530718
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educational psychology
Research Institution	Bunkyo Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	UEMURA Kayoko 文京学院大学, 人間学部, 教授 (70213395)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	YOSHIZAWA Chinatsu 上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 准教授 (10352593) KASUYA Hiroko 文京学院大学, 人間学部, 教授 (60296291)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	食事 / 共同行為 / スクリプト / 幼児
Research Abstract	While playing “kitchen”, the child talked less at the earlier times and increasingly more often at the later times by pretending that she was eating anddrinking as well as cooking. The mother asked questions about objects and cooking and gave information such as how to use kitchen utensils. During mealtimes, on the other hand, the mother spent more time encouraging the child to eat more and to eat properly than in giving information. These findings demonstrated that children acquire and form the meaning of meal-time scripts in crossing the boundary with their mothers from mealtime to pretend-play settings.

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