The Play Activity Questionnaire: A parent report measure of children's play preferences

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo-Anne K. Finegan ◽  
G. Alison Niccols ◽  
James E. Zacher ◽  
Jane E. Hood
Keyword(s):  
Parent Report ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Play Activity ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Report Measure ◽  
Activity Questionnaire

scholarly journals Development and Evaluation of A New Measure of Children’s Play: The Children’s Play Scale (CPS)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Dodd ◽  
Rachel J. Nesbit ◽  
Laura Maratchi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Informant Agreement ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Abstract Background There is increasing recognition of the importance of children’s play from a public health perspective given the links between play and children’s physical and mental health. The present research aimed to develop and evaluate a new parent-report questionnaire that measures the time children spend playing and how adventurously children play, across a range of places.Method The questionnaire was developed with input from a diverse group of parents and experts in children’s play. It was designed to yield a range of metrics including time spent playing per year, time spent playing outside, time spent playing in nature and level of adventurous play. The reliability of the questionnaire was then evaluated with 245 parents (149 mothers, 96 fathers) of 154 children aged 5 to 11 years. All participants completed the measure at time 1. At time 2, an average of 20 days later, 184 parents (111 mothers and 73 fathers) of 99 children completed the measure again. Results Cross-informant agreement, evaluated using Concordance Correlation Coefficients (CCCs), ranged from 0.36 to 0.51. These fall in the poor to moderate range and are largely comparable to cross-informant agreement on other measures. Test-retest reliability for mothers was good (range 0.67 - 0.76) for time spent playing metrics. For fathers, test-retest reliability was lower (range 0.39 - 0.63). For both parents the average level of adventurous play variable had relatively poor test retest reliability (mothers = 0.49, fathers = 0.42). This variable also showed a significant increase from time 1 to time 2. This instability over time may be due to the timing of the research in relation to the Covid-19 lockdown and associated shifts in risk perception.Conclusions The measure will be of value in future research focusing on the public health benefits and correlates of children’s play as well as researchers interested in children’s outdoor play and play in nature specifically. The development of the measure in collaboration with parents and experts in children’s play is a significant strength. It will be of value for future research to further validate the measure against play diaries or activity monitors.

scholarly journals Development and evaluation of a new measure of children’s play: the Children’s Play Scale (CPS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen F. Dodd ◽  
Rachel J. Nesbit ◽  
Laura R. Maratchi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Informant Agreement ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Abstract Background There is increasing recognition of the importance of children’s play from a public health perspective, given the links between play and children’s physical and mental health. The present research aimed to develop and evaluate a new parent-report questionnaire that measures the time children spend playing across a range of places and includes a supplement to evaluate how adventurously children play. Methods The questionnaire was developed with input from a diverse group of parents and experts in children’s play. It was designed to yield a range of metrics including time spent playing per year, time spent playing outside, time spent playing in nature and level of adventurous play. The reliability of the questionnaire was then evaluated with 245 parents (149 mothers, 96 fathers) of 154 children aged 5–11 years. All participants completed the measure at time 1. At time 2, an average of 20 days later, 184 parents (111 mothers and 73 fathers) of 99 children completed the measure again. Results Cross-informant agreement, evaluated using Concordance Correlation Coefficients (CCCs), ranged from 0.36 to 0.51. These fall in the poor to moderate range and are largely comparable to cross-informant agreement on other measures. Test-retest reliability for mothers was good (range 0.67–0.76) for time spent playing metrics. For fathers, test-retest reliability was lower (range 0.39–0.63). For both parents the average level of adventurous play variable had relatively poor test retest reliability (mothers = 0.49, fathers = 0.42). This variable also showed a significant increase from time 1 to time 2. This instability over time may be due to the timing of the research in relation to the Covid-19 lockdown and associated shifts in risk perception. Conclusions The measure will be of value in future research focusing on the public health benefits and correlates of children’s play as well as researchers interested in children’s outdoor play and play in nature specifically. The development of the measure in collaboration with parents and experts in children’s play is a significant strength. It will be of value for future research to further validate the measure against play diaries or activity monitors.

scholarly journals Age Specifics of Role-Playing with Play Tools in Preschool Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
I.A. Ryabkova ◽  
E.O. Smirnova ◽  
E.G. Sheina
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Play Activity ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Real Objects

This paper is part of a larger research focused on observations of preschool children in free make-believe play with different objects. This paper presents the outcomes of observations of children’s play with toys that imitate real objects (cups, swords, irons and so on).The dynamics of play activity in different age groups (3, 4, 5 and 6 years) is shown. In the two younger groups, role renaming is extremely rare and is accompanied by play actions, while children do not change their appearance in accordance with the role. From the age of 5, the number of renaming increases sharply: two-thirds of children call themselves some kind of a role name, many dress up, and the vast majority plays a role. At 6 years, there is a slight decline in the number of children with role renaming and a slight increase in the number of children who change their appearance as compared to 5-year-olds.In the environment with toys imitating real objects, the role emerges in response to toys, which significantly differs from how the role appears in the environment with open-ended materials. The paper describes the roles that were employed in the play with toys.

scholarly journals Mapalalian

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Kastama Putra
Keyword(s):  
Musical Composition ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Play Activity ◽  
Children’S Play

Komposisi “ Mapalalian” merupakan representasi dari sebuah aktifi tas permainan anak-anak di Bali yaitu Meduldulan.Di balik kesederhanaan permainan Medul-dulan terkandung nilai-nilai seperti belajar untuk menghormatisesama teman, bersifat sportif dan saling tenggang rasa. Di samping itu dalam permainan Medul-dulan terdapat pulasuasana kegembiraan, kelincahan, riang, gembira, senang, bersembunyi, serta berlarian. Hal-hal tersebut dicobadiolah melalui proses musikalisasi menjadi suatu bentuk komposisi musik etnis. Beberapa tahap yang dilalui dalampembuatan komposisi ini ialah eksplorasi, improvisasi, pembentukan, serta evaluasi. Instrumen yang dipilih sebagaimedia ungkap dalam komposisi ini adalah instrumen yang diambil dari Gong Kebyar, kendang Banyuwangi, sulingGambuh, Ongek-ongekan. Instrumen-instrumen tersebut dipilih karena memiliki karakter suara yang sesuai denganide garapan dalam komposisi ini.Kata Kunci: mapalalian, medul-medulan, komposisi musik.ABSTRACT” Mapalalian” Composition. This composition represents a children’s play activity in Bali called Medul-dulan.Behind its simplicity Medul-dulan game contains values such as learning to respect peers, sportsmanship and mutualtolerance. In addition, Medul-dulan game also presents the atmosphere of excitement, agility, cheerful, happiness, hidingand running. Those things were tried to be processed through the music and resulted in a form of ethnic musical composition.Some of the stages traversed in making this composition were exploration, improvisation, creation, and evaluation. Theinstruments selected as the showing media in this composition were partly taken from Gong Kebyar, Banyuwangi drums,Gambuh fl ute, and Ongek-ongekan. These instruments were selected due to their voice character which fi t the idea of thiscomposition.Keywords: mapalalian, medul-medulan, musical composition, Balinese music

Knowing and Feeling in Children's Play

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 854-855
Author(s):  
Karin Lifter
Keyword(s):  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play
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