Print Email Facebook Twitter Social connectedness at the playground before and after COVID-19 school closure Title Social connectedness at the playground before and after COVID-19 school closure Author Eichengreen, Adva (Universiteit Leiden) Tsou, Yung Ting (Universiteit Leiden) Nasri, Maedeh (Universiteit Leiden) van Klaveren, Lisa Maria (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Li, Boya (Universiteit Leiden) Koutamanis, A. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management) Baratchi, Mitra (Universiteit Leiden) Blijd-Hoogewys, Els (INTER-PSY; University Medical Center Groningen) Kok, Joost (University of Twente) Rieffe, Carolien (Universiteit Leiden; University of Twente; University of London, Institute of Education) Date 2023 Abstract Social connectedness at school is crucial to children's development, yet very little is known about the way it has been affected by school closures during COVID-19 pandemic. We compared pre-post lockdown levels of social connectedness at a school playground in forty-three primary school-aged children, using wearable sensors, observations, peer nominations and self-reports. Upon school reopening, findings from sensors and peer nominations indicated increases in children's interaction time, network diversity and network centrality. Group observations indicated a decrease in no-play social interactions and an increase in children's involvement in social play. Explorative analyses did not reveal relations between changes in peer connectedness and pre-lockdown levels of peer connectedness or social contact during the lockdown period. Findings pointed at the role of recess in contributing to children's social well-being and the importance of attending to their social needs upon reopening. Subject ChildrenCOVID-19PlaygroundSensorsSocial connectedness To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:34723b96-92b4-4795-9c70-5147860d9566 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101562 Embargo date 2023-12-28 ISSN 0193-3973 Source Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 87 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Adva Eichengreen, Yung Ting Tsou, Maedeh Nasri, Lisa Maria van Klaveren, Boya Li, A. Koutamanis, Mitra Baratchi, Els Blijd-Hoogewys, Joost Kok, Carolien Rieffe Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0193397323000515_main.pdf 2.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:34723b96-92b4-4795-9c70-5147860d9566/datastream/OBJ/view