Children's Online Collaborative Storytelling during 2020 COVID-19 Home Confinement

doi:10.3390/ejihpe11040115

. 2021 Dec 10;11(4):1619-1634.

doi: 10.3390/ejihpe11040115.

Children's Online Collaborative Storytelling during 2020 COVID-19 Home Confinement

Cristina Alonso-Campuzano^{1

2}, Giuseppe Iandolo^{1

2}, María Concetta Mazzeo², Noelia Sosa González², Michelle Jin Yee Neoh³, Alessandro Carollo⁴, Giulio Gabrieli³, Gianluca Esposito⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, School of Biomedical Sciences, European University of Madrid, Calle Tajo S/N. (Urb. El Bosque), Villaviciosa de Odón (Madrid), 28670 Madrid, Spain.
² Observation and Functional Diagnosis Division, PSISE Clinical and Developmental Psychological Service, Calle Albendiego 7, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
³ Psychology Program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639818, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Trento, Italy.

PMID: 34940393
PMCID: PMC8700547
DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe11040115

Children's Online Collaborative Storytelling during 2020 COVID-19 Home Confinement

Cristina Alonso-Campuzano et al. Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 10;11(4):1619-1634.

doi: 10.3390/ejihpe11040115.

Authors

Cristina Alonso-Campuzano^{1

2}, Giuseppe Iandolo^{1

2}, María Concetta Mazzeo², Noelia Sosa González², Michelle Jin Yee Neoh³, Alessandro Carollo⁴, Giulio Gabrieli³, Gianluca Esposito⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, School of Biomedical Sciences, European University of Madrid, Calle Tajo S/N. (Urb. El Bosque), Villaviciosa de Odón (Madrid), 28670 Madrid, Spain.
² Observation and Functional Diagnosis Division, PSISE Clinical and Developmental Psychological Service, Calle Albendiego 7, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
³ Psychology Program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639818, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Trento, Italy.

PMID: 34940393
PMCID: PMC8700547
DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe11040115

Abstract

Digital collaborative storytelling can be supported by an online learning-management system like Moodle, encouraging prosocial behaviors and shared representations. This study investigated children's storytelling and collaborative behaviors during an online storytelling activity throughout the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 home confinement in Spain. From 1st to 5th grade of primary school, one-hundred-sixteen students conducted weekly activities of online storytelling as an extracurricular project of a school in Madrid. Facilitators registered participants' platform use and collaboration. Stories were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using the Bears Family Story Analysis System. Three categories related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic were added to the story content analysis. The results indicate that primary students worked collaboratively in an online environment, with some methodology adaptations to 1st and 2nd grade. Story lengths tended to be reduced with age, while cohesion and story structure showed stable values in all grades. All stories were balanced in positive and negative contents, especially in characters' behavior and relationships, while story problems remained at positive solution levels. In addition, the pandemic theme emerged directly or indirectly in only 15% of the stories. The findings indicate the potential of the online collaborative storytelling activities as a distance-education tool in promoting collaboration and social interactions.

Keywords: COVID-19; cognitive development; collaborative learning; social distancing; storytelling.

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**Figure 1**
Home page of the online platform for the collaborative storytelling activity.

**Figure 2**
Platform use and collaboration mean scores (1. No/never; 2. enough/sometimes; 3. a lot/always; N = 81).

**Figure 3**
Mean scores in story variables with significant differences by sessions’ theme (narrative structure, Balance 3—positive/negative relationships, Balance 4—adaptive/non-adaptive behaviors)

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[1] Iandolo G., López-Florit L., Venuti P., Neoh M.J., Bornstein M.H., Esposito G. Story contents and intensity of the anxious symptomatology in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Int. J. Adolesc. Youth. 2020;25:725–740. doi: 10.1080/02673843.2020.1737156. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Iandolo G., López-Florit L., Venuti P., Neoh M.J., Bornstein M.H., Esposito G. Story contents and intensity of the anxious symptomatology in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Int. J. Adolesc. Youth. 2020;25:725–740. doi: 10.1080/02673843.2020.1737156. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Iandolo G., Esposito G., Venuti P. The bears family projective test: Evaluating stories of children with emotional difficulties. Percept. Mot. Skills. 2012;114:883–902. doi: 10.2466/02.09.15.21.PMS.114.3.883-902. - DOI - PubMed

[4] Iandolo G., Esposito G., Venuti P. The bears family projective test: Evaluating stories of children with emotional difficulties. Percept. Mot. Skills. 2012;114:883–902. doi: 10.2466/02.09.15.21.PMS.114.3.883-902. - DOI - PubMed

[5] Slobin D.I. Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK: 1990. The development from child speaker to native speaker; pp. 233–256.

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[7] Smorti A. Il Pensiero Narrativo: Costruzione di Storie e Sviluppo Della Conoscenza Sociale. Giunti; Firenze, Italy: 1994.

[8] Smorti A. Il Pensiero Narrativo: Costruzione di Storie e Sviluppo Della Conoscenza Sociale. Giunti; Firenze, Italy: 1994.

[9] Bruner J. The narrative construction of reality. Crit. Inq. 1991;18:1–21. doi: 10.1086/448619. - DOI

[10] Bruner J. The narrative construction of reality. Crit. Inq. 1991;18:1–21. doi: 10.1086/448619. - DOI

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