Engagement in sociodramatic play has been shown to positively impact young children's learning and development. By definition, this type of social play occurs in groups; however, research to date has primarily sought to understand sociodramatic play engagement by focusing on individual factors. Little work has considered the role of the peer group in sociodramatic play engagement. This concurrent correlational study investigated relations between types of peer group membership and the amount of children's sociodramatic play engagement, using hierarchical cluster analyses, chi-square tests and multiple regression to analyse naturalistic data of preschoolers' free play. Findings suggest that membership in a highly cohesive peer subgroup may be important for sociodramatic play engagement. This study illustrates how social ethological perspectives can be useful for understanding social play in early childhood.

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同龄人群体成员资格是否与社会戏剧游戏参与有关？社会伦理学方法

参与社会戏剧游戏已被证明对幼儿的学习和发展产生积极影响。根据定义，这种类型的社交游戏发生在群体中；然而，迄今为止的研究主要试图通过关注个人因素来理解社会戏剧游戏参与度。很少有工作考虑同龄人在社会戏剧参与中的作用。这项同时进行的相关研究使用层次聚类分析、卡方检验和多元回归来分析学龄前儿童自由玩耍的自然数据，调查了同龄人群体成员类型与儿童社会戏剧游戏参与量之间的关系。研究结果表明，高度凝聚力的同龄人亚群的成员资格对于社会戏剧游戏参与可能很重要。