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The Adult Playfulness Scale: An Initial Assessment

open access: yes, 1992
We develop a theory-based measure of adults' playfulness, the Adult Playfulness Scale. Five studies, conducted in laboratory and field sites with over 300 individuals, examine the psychometric properties and correlates of playfulness.
Mary Ann Glynn, Jane Webster
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Playfulness and sensation seeking

open access: yes
Data and syntaxes supporting the analysis of the manuscript " Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis in Librarians and ...
René Proyer   +2 more
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The beauty of experiential learning in anatomy

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomy is a unique subject where one must learn by doing. This is achieved through a variety of methods like dissection, use of prosections, imaging, playful learning (crocheting structures, drawing, and painting organs), through functional movement like yoga or pilates, use of 3D plastic models or by immersing oneself in virtual or augmented
Bipasha Choudhury, Ingrid Gouldsborough
wiley   +1 more source

The Positive Relationships of Playfulness With Indicators of Health, Activity, and Physical Fitness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Adult playfulness is a personality trait that enables people to frame or reframe everyday situations in such a way that they experience them as entertaining, intellectually stimulating, or personally interesting. Earlier research supports the notion that
René T. Proyer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Counting the Muses in German Speakers – Evaluation of the German-Language Translation of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scales (K-DOCS)

open access: yesPsychological Test Adaptation and Development, 2022
. The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scales (K-DOCS) assess individual differences in creativity across five domains (Everyday, Scholarly, Performance, Science, and Artistic).
Kay Brauer   +3 more
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Integrating collaborative virtual reality into medical neuroanatomy selectively enhances short‐term spatial understanding of brain structure

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning neuroanatomy presents a major challenge for medical students due to the brain's high spatial complexity and the limitations of traditional two‐dimensional instruction methods. Virtual reality (VR) provides immersive three‐dimensional visualization which may enhance spatial understanding, yet its effectiveness when implemented ...
Michal Bernstein‐Eliav   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Playfulness can Enable Greater Understanding of Game-Based Adult Mental Health Interventions.

open access: yes, 2023
Playfulness is a critical term for the study of games, simulations, and mental health. In addition to formal characteristics of games, how players perceive and experience those games has shown effect on the outcomes of interventions.
Masek, Leland
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

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