Two comparable sets of children's neighborhood activities were collected from Vietnam and Korea. This study suggested that the location analysis, although helping describe where each activity most often occurred, was unable to explain why an activity took place in a particular setting but not in other settings. The location-activity relationship analysis also hardly accounted for an activity that occurred across many different settings and a setting where many different activities occurred. This analysis thus focused on environmental resources as an alternative variable. Environmental resources referred to properties, qualities, and elements of neighborhood's sociophysical environment that children explored to use in the instrumental terms for the process of realizing intended activities. The analysis attempted to demonstrate that this alternative variable not only served to explain children's neighborhood activity but also provided conceptual basis to compare children's experiences in neighborhoods of the two different cultures.
