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A Study of Interpersonal Choices from 5th Students
in a Playing Situation
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand elementary school
students* interpersonal choices and to explore the patterns of their
interpersonal interactions in a playing situation. Through observation,
behaviors of 30 5th students at a school in I-Lan were transcribed, coded,
and analyzed. Two coders was trained to analyze the data.
The main findings of this study were as follow:
1)Most interpersonal choices of students can be characterized by five
choices, except that some of the choices were difficult to be categorized.
2)All of the students from 15 dyads were characterized on interpersonal
choices by thinking/working choice (44%), ruling choice (23%), sorrowing
choice (20%), enjoying choice (10%), other (3%), and caring choice (1%).
3)The results of sequential analyses indicated that there were significant
patterns occur between students, such as:
1. ruling choice ruling choice ruling choice
2. enjoying choice enjoying choice sorrowing choice
3. enjoying choice sorrowing choice sorrowing choice
4. sorrowing choice sorrowing choice sorrowing choice
5. thinking/working choice thinking/working choice
thinking/working choice.
However, the least likely sequences were: 1) ruling choices and
sorrowing choices to thinking/working choices; 2) thinking/working
choices to enjoying choices and sorrowung choices.
According to the major findings above, applications in guidance of
interpersonal relations for students as well as suggestions for future
research were presented.
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