Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399).
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An Initial Cross-Cultural Comparison of Adult Playfulness in Mainland China and German-Speaking Countries [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Compared with playfulness in infants and children, playfulness in adults is relatively under-studied. Although there is no empirical research comparing differences in adult playfulness across cultures, one might expect variations between Western and ...
Dandan Pang, René T. Proyer
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Localizing adult playfulness in dimensions of romantic attachment and jealousy in singles [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyAdult playfulness is a personality trait gaining increasing attention, particularly in romantic contexts. We localize four facets of playfulness (Other-directed, Lighthearted, Intellectual, and Whimsical) within dimensions of attachment styles and ...
Kay Brauer, René T. Proyer
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Comparison of the playfulness of mothers of preschool children with typical development and developmental delays [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyEarly childhood is a critical developmental period in which the quality of parent–child interaction shapes children’s cognitive, language, motor, and social–emotional development.
Elif Açıkgöz Söğüt +1 more
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International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2021 It is important for instruments measuring playfulness constructs to be valid and reliable because these instruments help inform playfulness-related theories. This study uses Rasch psychometric techniques to evaluate the functioning of the OLIW instrument
Darrel R. Davis, William Boone
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Studying trait-playfulness, time spent with physical activity, and athletic identity among self-ascribed athletes and non-athletes [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingAdult playfulness is an individual difference variable that describes how people (re)frame situations in a way that they are experienced as entertaining, and/or intellectually stimulating, and/or personally interesting.
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A network model for human playfulness during war [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis novel study investigates adult playfulness during recent wartime in the Middle East using the OLIW model of playfulness and the concept of fantastic reality ability to utilize imagination in response to stress and trauma.
Dori Rubinstein +4 more
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How does playfulness (re)frame the world? Evidence for selective cognitive and behavioral redirecting in times of adversity [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionDo playful people perceive, approach, and respond to their environment and life events differently than less playful individuals? While playfulness has been theorized to affect how individuals frame or reframe situations, this widely accepted
Xiangyou Shen, Zoe Crawley
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Extending the study of playfulness in romantic life: Analyzing associations with attachment and jealousy in same-gender and opposite-gender couples [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAdult playfulness describes individual differences in (re)framing situations so that they are experienced as entertaining, and/or interesting, and/or intellectually stimulating. There is increasing interest in its role for romantic life.
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Short playful interactions improve executive functions in children [PDF]
Scientific ReportsExecutive Functions (EFs) are foundational for lifelong flourishing, supporting critical capacities such as planning, decision-making, and self-regulation.
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