Children's Characterization of Place

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This study investigated children's place preferences and evaluations. A sample of grade-school children in El Cajon, near San Diego, answered questions about places in the neighborhood around their school. The answers were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and a modified repertory grid methodology. Groups of like-minded children were identified, as were the different ways in which they evaluated the same environments. The children's characterization of a place was closely related to how they perceived its utility. Places useful to the children contributed to child-environment transactions that promoted independence, creativity, sociability, and affect.

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