著者

高橋 春子 和田 恵美子

出版者

The Japan Society of Home Economics

雑誌

家政学雑誌 (ISSN:04499069)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, no.3, pp.190-195, 1972-05-20 (Released:2010-03-09)

参考文献数

5

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It seems that colors play an : important role in providing the good environment for the very young children and in cultivating the noble sentiment in them. In many cases, mothers and teachers create the environment according to their own preference. However, feeling and desire of little children should be concerned and their sense of beauty should be nurtured. Consequently study was made on the color preference shown by the kindergarteners, the resemblance between the results obtained by the three methods described below, and the relations between favorite colors among color samples and colors of their clothing.1. Subjects : 180 boys and girls of Shotoku Kindergarten and 400 of Ogaki North Kindergarten2. Dates of test : May and June in 19693. Method of elucidating preference : (1) Using the colored paper(2) Using abstract figures(3) Using paper dolls4. Results : (1) The test result by method (1) shows no difference in color preference between boys and girls of 3 years old. They both are fond of “red”. When they become older, girls still like “red”, while boys like “blue” or “yellow”. Girls' color preference is likely to be changeless, but in the case of boys it varies in a wide range.(2) Four or five year old boys like “blue”, and dislike “red”. Girls who like “red” dislike “blue”. Generally speaking, the young children who like “red” dislike “blue”.(3) Children who show their decided color preference in the tests using color samples have the same color preference in selecting their clothes.Color preference of little children is heteronomous and therefore it is greatly affected by their environment.