Child's Play: Examining the Association Between Time Spent Playing and Child Mental Health.

It is theorised that adventurous play offers learning opportunities that help to prevent mental health problems in children. In this study, data from two samples is used to examine associations between the time that children aged 5–11 years spent playing adventurously and their mental health. For co...

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Publicado en:Child Psychiatry & Human Development Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 1678 - 1687
Autores principales: Dodd, Helen F., Nesbit, Rachel J., FitzGibbon, Lily
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2023
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          Dodd, Helen F.
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          https://ror.org/03yghzc09 Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChyMe), College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, 2.05b South Cloisters, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, EX1 2LU, Exeter, UK
          https://ror.org/05v62cm79 School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences (PCLS), University of Reading, Reading, UK
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        Poor families
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          COVID-19 pandemic
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        Anxiety
        Child mental health
        Internalising problems
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      ab: It is theorised that adventurous play offers learning opportunities that help to prevent mental health problems in children. In this study, data from two samples is used to examine associations between the time that children aged 5–11 years spent playing adventurously and their mental health. For comparison, time spent playing unadventurously and time spent playing outdoors are also examined. Study 1 includes a sample of 417 parents, Study 2 includes data from a nationally representative sample of 1919 parents. Small, significant associations between adventurous play and internalising problems, as well as positive affect during the first UK-wide Covid-19 lockdown, were found; children who spend more time playing adventurously had fewer internalising problems and more positive affect during the Covid-19 lockdown. Study 2 showed that these associations were stronger for children from lower income families than for children from higher income families. The results align with theoretical hypotheses about adventurous play.
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