A Study on Safety Cognition of Children toward Behavior Norm on Playground Equipments

• Main Authors: CHENG, Tsung-Pei, 程從沛
• Other Authors: HOU, Jing-Shoung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87773836486106455637

碩士 === 東海大學 === 景觀學系 === 88 === The purpose of this research was to investigate in terms of environmental psychology how children utilize playground equipments. Furthermore, various phenomena at playgrounds were interpreted considering children’s safety cognition toward playground behaviors in order to provide the planners or designers of playgrounds with a brand-new perspective on how to create a safe and amusing playground environment. By means of observations, the research was proceeded on the spot as well as questionnaire filling to elementary school students. Playground facilities such as swings, slides, seesaws, and jungle gyms were chosen; they are children’s favorites, but on the other hand, many playground accidents had also been ascribed to them. In the light of pioneer studies, behaviors happening on playground equipments were classified into four categories- normal, weakly technical, technical, and highly technical, and their respective proportions of occurrence are observed. Meanwhile, by applying the repeated measure ANOVA analysis, the differences of children’s cognition of playground behaviors were carefully examined the interaction between forms in light of playground equipment and types of playground behavior. The conclusions have been drawn as followed: Part 1: on-site observations (1) When a child utilizes playground equipments, there are indeed a certain notable norms, which represent child’s pursuit of the sense of safety as well as entertainment. (2) For the study of types of playground equipments and technical play behaviors, the principle of sampling playground equipment was according to the classes of security. Through the statistical result of observation dada, it is concluded that there is no enough evidence to prove that, except for swing, the types of playground equipments can influence significantly the proportion arrangement of four kinds of technical play behaviors on slides, see-saws, jungle gyms. (3) Gender and age significantly influence the respective proportions of occurrence of the different classes of playground behaviors. Part 2: questionnaire filling to elementary school students (1) For the cognition of playground equipment’s safety, children have the ability to judge the safety of playground equipments reasonably. (2) There is a significant difference in the judgments of children on the safety between playground equipments and them on use. (3) The safety cognition of children toward behavior on playground equipments is influenced significantly by the interaction between the form of playground equipment utilized and the class of playground behavior occurring on that equipment. Moreover, on the affection of the interactions between the triple factors, a child’s age is the major effective factor to his safety cognition toward behavior on playground equipments. (4) With the exception of slides, the entertainment cognition of children toward behavior on playground equipments are influenced significantly by the interaction between the form of playground equipment utilized and the class of playground behavior occurring on that equipment. Moreover, on the affection of the interactions between the triple factors, a child’s traumatic experience is the major effective factor to his safety cognition toward behavior on playground equipments. The research has substantiated the importance of behavioral observation on environmental planning or designing. In addition, it will provide planners or designers of playgrounds with the viewpoints of the users in the hope that a playground environment with safety and amusement as well shall be created.