ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1613650
This article is part of the Research TopicPhysical Education for Holistic Educational DevelopmentView all 12 articles
I Am A Child, I Learn Through Play; Play-Based Character Education
Provisionally accepted
Levent GÖRÜN1*
Hande Baba Kaya1Rumeysa Alper1Mustafa Koç1Aylin Çelen2Selahattin Akpınar1Şirin Pepe1Yeşer Eroğlu Eskicioğlu1- 1Duzce University, Ankara, Türkiye
- 2Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Bolu, Türkiye
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Word count: 204 The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of a play-based character education program on children's behaviors. This study was designed according to the exploratory sequential design, one of the mixed method designs. The study group consisted of 40 children who received high scores from the behavior assessment scale for children applied to first-grade students studying in a primary school in the central district of Düzce. Within the scope of the study, the Behavior Assessment Scale for Children developed by Chuang et al. (2016) was used to make a general evaluation of children's behaviors and to collect information. The Turkish validity and reliability of the scale was conducted by Şişman, Ergun, and Sezer Balcı (2021). The data obtained within the scope of the research were coded into the SPSS 26.0 package program and T-Test analysis for unrelated samples was performed to determine the effect of the application within the scope of the game-based character education program on the dependent variable. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that the game-based character education program applied to the experimental group had a significant effect on different groups (experimental-control), and the eta square statistic value of this effect had a large effect size.
Keywords: Character Education1, behavior change2, child3, Play4, Character5
Received: 17 Apr 2025; Accepted: 28 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 GÖRÜN, Baba Kaya, Alper, Koç, Çelen, Akpınar, Pepe and Eskicioğlu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Levent GÖRÜN, Duzce University, Ankara, Türkiye
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