2018 Volume 74 Issue 1 Pages 101-110
This study aims to quantify the influence of accessibility of outdoor play space on children's play behaviour by focusing on open space and frequency of two different types of play. A retrospective questionnaire survey on play environment in ages 9-10 was carried out on junior high school students. Correlation analyses between accessibility of open space and a) ball-game frequency and b) digital sports games frequency are conducted. Participants are classified by indoor-outdoor preference and physical-digital preference.
The results were as follows: a) physical-digital preference is determined mainly by preference for active play and the appeal of digital play, b) accessibility of open space influences daily ball-game frequency in the indoor-digital preferring group, c) correlation between preference for ball-game and preference for digital sports game can be observed, d) digital sports game play increases as accessibility declines in the outdoor-physical preferring group.
