The quality of social pretend play may have a positive impact on children's development. This study investigated to what degree this quality is a characteristic of a child versus a function of the play partner or the specific pairing of two children. For this purpose, preschool children's general pretend play quality (actor effect), their general influence on their play partner's pretend play quality (partner effect) and the role of the specific constellation between two children (relationship effect) were examined in a dyadic setting. Potential associations of the effects with children's age, gender, social cognitive and social competencies, as well as the dyadic composition of these variables and their friendship were examined. Children completed two to four dyadic pretend play situations with different peers. They were tested for their language ability, theory of mind and emotion understanding. Educators rated children's social competence (cooperation and sociability) and evaluated their friendship with one another. A social relations model analysis was conducted. The results indicated that children's pretend play quality was determined to the same degree by the child and by the specific pairing of two children. Positive associations were found between children's pretend play quality and age, emotion understanding and sociability on the individual level. Further, the quality of children's social pretend play benefited from having older and more advanced play partners.

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同伴游戏中二元假装游戏质量的出现：儿童能力，游戏伙伴能力和二元星座的作用

该质量社交装扮游戏可能会对儿童的成长产生积极影响。这项研究调查了这种素质在多大程度上是儿童的特征与游戏伴侣或两个孩子的特定配对的关系。为此，在二元环境中检查了学龄前儿童的整体假装游戏质量（演员效应），其对游戏伴侣的假装游戏质量的一般影响（伙伴效应）以及两个孩子之间特定星座的作用（关系效应）。研究了这些影响与儿童年龄，性别，社会认知和社会能力以及这些变量及其友爱的二元构成的潜在关联。孩子们在同伴的陪伴下完成了两到四次二元化的假装游戏。他们接受了语言能力，心理理论和情感理解的测试。教育工作者对儿童的社交能力（合作和社交能力）进行了评估，并评估了彼此之间的友谊。进行了社会关系模型分析。结果表明，孩子的假装游戏质量是由孩子和两个孩子的特定配对决定的，程度相同。在儿童的假装游戏质量和年龄，情感理解和个人社交能力之间存在正相关。此外，儿童的社交装扮游戏的质量得益于年龄更大，更高级的游戏玩伴。的社交能力（合作和社交能力），并评估彼此之间的友谊。进行了社会关系模型分析。结果表明，孩子的假装游戏质量是由孩子和两个孩子的特定配对决定的，程度相同。在儿童的假装游戏质量和年龄，情感理解和个人社交能力之间存在正相关。此外，儿童的社交装扮游戏的质量得益于年龄更大，更高级的游戏玩伴。的社交能力（合作和社交能力），并评估彼此之间的友谊。进行了社会关系模型分析。结果表明，孩子的假装游戏质量是由孩子和两个孩子的特定配对决定的，程度相同。在儿童的假装游戏质量和年龄，情感理解和个人社交能力之间存在正相关。此外，儿童的社交装扮游戏的质量得益于年龄更大，更高级的游戏玩伴。假装个人的游戏质量和年龄，情感理解和社交能力。此外，儿童的社交装扮游戏的质量得益于年龄更大，更高级的游戏玩伴。假装个人的游戏质量和年龄，情感理解和社交能力。此外，儿童的社交装扮游戏的质量得益于年龄更大，更高级的游戏玩伴。