英文摘要 |
This study was to understand the current status and relations between young children’s temperaments and color preferences, and to examine the differences of age and gender in young children’s color preference and temperament. There were 241 young children aged 4~5 from one private and four public kindergartens in Taipei city and county areas. By using the revised Behavioral Style Questionnaire and nine color cards of Japanese practical color coordinate system (PCCS), parents filled in the scales and young children went through one-on-one interviews respectively. The results showed as follows. (1) No significant difference exists between subjects and norms in temperamental expressions; (2) For all subject, there was no significant difference among their temperament expressions. However, there was gender difference between boys and girls. Boys tended to have higher activity level, lower regularity, lower intensity of reaction, higher positive quality of mood, lower persistence, lesser distractibility, and higher threshold of responsiveness thangirls; (3) Among all 241 subjects, 229 (95%)had chromatic color preference; (4)Only 64 young children (26.6%) expressed their preference to specific colors; (5) Colors most favored by young children’s color favor were red, yellow, purple, blue, orange, green, black, white, and gray in order. Most girls liked red, and boys liked blue. The comparison between age groups was found that 4 year olds liked the three primary colors (red, yellow and blue), and 5 year olds most liked the intermediate colors (orange, green and purple); (6) Young children’s perceptions of color may be roughly divided into three categories: concrete objects, abstract representations, and association of situation. Moreover, the relations between color preferences and temperaments were found: (1) Boys with chromatic color preferences had a higher threshold of responsiveness, however girls had higher positive quality of mood and lower intensity of reaction; (2) Boys with fixed/specific color preference had lower intensity of reaction; (3) Boys with yellow color preference had lower persistence. Contrasting to boys with a blue color preference, those with red color preference had lower threshold of responsiveness; (4) Girls who like blue and yellow, showed higher positive quality of mood. Girls who like purple and red, showed higher negative quality of mood. Finally, the study suggests that future follow-up researches may focus on the investigation of older children, and expand the scope to include exploration on the achromatic color preference, and the correlation between chromatic color preferences and emotions. |