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The well-being of playful adults: Adult playfulness, subjective well-being, physical well-being, and the pursuit of enjoyable activities [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 It was hypothesized that playfulness in adults relates positively to different indicators of subjective but also physical well-being. A sample of 255 adults completed subjective measures of playfulness along with self-ratings for different facets of well-
René T. Proyer
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EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF ADULT PARTICIPATION IN PLAYFUL ACTIVITIES
Facta Universitatis. Series, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, 2021 Playfulness in adulthood has been shown to be un-researched scientific issue. We believe that it is because of earlier non-recognition of this issue as a special field of study, but also the existence of a popular belief that the playful activities are ...
Dragana Jovanović
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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).
Kay Brauer +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Influenced by the flowering of positive psychology in the field of foreign language acquisition research in recent years, the present study aimed to explore the perceived functions of playfulness, as a personality construct, among English as a foreign ...
Elyas Barabadi +3 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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Adult playful individuals have more long- and short-term relationships [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Number of romantic/sexual relationships is suggested as a proxy of potential reproductive success. Cross-culturally, both sexes desire playful long-term mates and playfulness predicts relationship quality.
Yago Luksevicius de Moraes +3 more
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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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Being playful and smart? The relations of adult playfulness with psychometric and self-estimated intelligence and academic performance [PDF]
Learning and Individual Differences, 2011 The study examines the relation between subjectively assessed adult playfulness and psychometric and selfestimated intelligence in a sample of 254 students. As expected, playfulness existed widely independently from psychometric intelligence. Correlations pointed in the direction of higher expressive playfulness and numeric intelligence and lower ...
René Proyer
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Exploring the Connection between Adult Playfulness and Emotional Intelligence
Journal of Play in Adulthood, 2022 This study explored the connection between adult playfulness and emotional intelligence. Participants were 325 (39 men, 286 women) primarily European American, (59%), undergraduate students attending a private, four year, liberal arts university in the ...
Robyn Holmes, Tori Hart
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Adult playfulness describes individual differences in (re)framing everyday situations as personally interesting, and/or entertaining, and/or intellectually stimulating. We aimed at extending initial evidence on the interconnectedness between language use
Kay Brauer +2 more
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