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Table 4 Percentages of social participation types around equipment or play areas (mean (SD))

From: Behavioral mapping of children’s physical activities and social behaviors in an indoor preschool facility: methodological challenges in revealing the influence of space in play

Equipment or play area

Social participation

Active conversation with teachers

Associative play

Onlooker behaviour

Parallel

Solitary

Ball experiment

0 (0)

40.57 (44.32)

4.73 (6.02)

11.92 (13.08)

42.78 (45.34)

Ball lift

1.85 (4.54)

15.95 (19.52)

4.99 (5.60)

40.60 (29.89)

34.76 (17.64)

Grocery store shelf

0 (0)

30.74 (29.47)

3.87 (5.19)

44.84 (24.39)

19.24 (14.89)

Grocery till

0 (0)

60.51 (23.08)

0.61 (0.94)

18.34 (9.20)

14.93 (18.07)

Horses

0.85 (2.09)

51.65 (35.53)

7.84 (9.34)

7.59 (7.66)

14.54 (16.43)

Magnet board

0 (0)

26.84 (34.33)

3.12 (7.65)

24.73 (38.69)

45.30 (45.67)

Puppet box

1.59 (3.89)

28.93 (30.25)

16.36 (28.98)

14.15 (20.18)

13.68 (15.18)

Scattered blocks

0.56 (1.11)

34.44 (26.98)

7.36 (5.04)

22.74 (17.89)

26.81 (18.82)

Wind tube experiment

0 (0)

30.55 (19.73)

4.44 (4.21)

42.87 (28.71)

20.23 (21.28)

Wood tree house

0.83 (2.04)

23.00 (25.00)

9.00 (10.85)

22.45 (10.84)

43.16 (25.82)

Xylophone

0 (0)

20 (44.72)

0 (0)

6.67 (14.91)

53.33 (50.55)

Scattered blocks II

6.17 (0)

38.27 (0)

12.35 (0)

28.40 (0)

9.88 (0)

Skipping pods

0.45 (0.64)

31.48 (6.44)

6.43 (3.65)

30.79 (16.34)

27.58 (26.27)

Equipment or play area

Social participation

 

Unoccupied behaviour

Active conversation with peers

Aggression

Imitation

 

Ball experiment

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Ball lift

1.85 (4.54)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Grocery store shelf

1.30 (2.09)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Grocery till

3.28 (5.45)

0.57 (1.28)

2.78 (5.56)

0 (0)

 

Horses

0 (0)

1.03 (2.29)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Magnet board

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Puppet box

7.33 (9.27)

1.55 (2.13)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Scattered blocks

5.31 (4.42)

2.65 (2.51)

0.56 (0.49)

0.74 (1.05)

 

Wind tube experiment

0.45 (1.10)

0.78 (1.19)

0.90 (1.81)

0.60 (0.85)

 

Wood tree house

0.72 (1.77)

1.00 (2.24)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Xylophone

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

Scattered blocks II

2.47 (0)

1.23 (0)

1.23 (0)

0 (0)

 

Skipping pods

2.37 (2.08)

0 (0)

1.80 (0)

0 (0)