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Playfulness from children’s perspectives: development and validation of the Children’s Playfulness Scale as a self-report instrument for children from 3 years of age

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Children’s playfulness refers to children’s enjoyment, motivation, and engagement in play and has been predominantly assessed from an adult perspective.
Isabelle Duss, Cornelia Rüdisüli, Corina Wustmann Seiler, Patricia Lannen   +3 more
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Testing associations between language use in descriptions of playfulness and age, gender, and self-reported playfulness in German-speaking adults

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, Rebekka Sendatzki, René T. Proyer   +2 more
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Adult Playfulness: Finnish Teachers Evaluating Their Own Playfulness

, 2022
Teachers need playfulness when designing teaching and learning processes. Acknowledging their playfulness as a pedagogical competence is important. Playfulness as a personality trait and as a quality of activities is studied in children but less often in
Marjaana Kangas, Signe Siklander, Justus Randolph   +2 more
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The Meaning of Playfulness: A Review of the Contemporary Definitions of the Concept across Disciplines

Eludamos, 2021
‘Playfulness’ is a concept used in various disciplines. In this article, we conduct a qualitative, systematic, and interdisciplinary literature review on the term ‘playfulness’ as used in recent scholarship.
Leland Masek, Jaakko Stenros
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Playfulness in Shakespearean adaptations

, 2020
Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and ...

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The Relation between Teachers’ and Children’s Playfulness: A Pilot Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Young children spend considerable time in educational settings, in which traditionally, their primary occupation is play. A playful preschool environment has been related to better cognitive, social and emotional development.
Shulamit Pinchover
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The well-being of playful adults: Adult playfulness, subjective well-being, physical well-being, and the pursuit of enjoyable activities

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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Perceived Functions of Playfulness in Adult English as a Foreign Language Learners: An Exploratory Study

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, Majid Elahi Shirvan, Mojdeh Shahnama, René T. Proyer   +3 more
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Influence Mechanism of Employee Playfulness Personality on Employee Creative Deviance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Based on the antecedent variable (playfulness personality) and the outcome variable (creative deviance) on the individual level, we introduce mediating variables (positive impression management motivation and harmonious innovation passion), integrate ...
Qiang Liu, Zhongwei Zhao, Yiran Liu, Yu Guo, Yao He, Hao Wang   +5 more
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Playfulness and prenatal alcohol exposure : a comparative study [PDF]

, 2012
Includes abstract.
Pearton, Jordan
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