Enhancing pay quality: Development of a physical environment rating scale for children's folk games in chinese neighborhoods

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale for evaluating the physical environment of children’s folk games in Chinese neighborhoods, emphasizing that modern residential environments should be designed to accommodate folk games, thereby ensuring their sustainable development. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with parents, and thematic analysis was used to identify folk games’ names and environmental characteristics. This was followed by an assessment of content validity and a pilot study to refine the scale’s items and dimensions.  Finally, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to validate the scale’s reliability and validity by data collected from 434 urban parents with children aged 3 to 12 to establish the scale’s structure. The analysis identified a three-factor scale consisting of Usable Natural Elements, Flexible Planar Arrangements, and Usable Boundaries, each with three to five measurement items. The scale demonstrated robust fit indices (χ²/df = 1..., , , # Enhancing pay quality: Development of a physical environment rating scale for children's folk games in chinese neighborhoods

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2547d7x14](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2547d7x14)

## Description of transcription_of_an_interview_en

This dataset comprises interview results related to the physical environment of children's folk games, originally conducted in Chinese and translated here into English. A total of 21 participants were interviewed using the same semi-structured format. Researchers manually coded the interview content, annotating it to provide initial conceptual information for the development of items and dimensions in subsequent scale research.

## Description of large_sample_data_434

This dataset pertains to the measurement items and dimensions of a physical environment scale for children's folk games, encompassing data from four representative residential neighborhoods in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China. A valid sample of 434 parents, whose ...