Examining playfulness in adults: Testing its correlates with personality, positive psychological functioning, goal aspirations, and multi-methodically assessed ingenuity

By R. Proyer. 2012

89 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. R. Proyer
2. Willibald F. Ruch
3. Claudia Buschor
4. A. Capezio
5. C. Petelczyc
6. Karl Aquino
7. Lu Wang
8. S. Restubog

In Social Psychology

1. R. Proyer
2. Willibald F. Ruch
3. Claudia Buschor
4. S. Restubog
5. Lu Wang
6. C. Petelczyc
7. A. Capezio
8. Karl Aquino

In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. Proyer
2. S. Restubog
3. Willibald F. Ruch
4. Lu Wang
5. A. Capezio
6. C. Petelczyc
7. Karl Aquino
8. Claudia Buschor

Citations in the corpus

• Self- and peer-rated character strengths: How do they relate to satisfaction with life and orientations to happiness? (2013, methodology): “Recent studies from our working group suggest that using signature strengths at work has beneficial effects of work-related factors (Harzer & Ruch, in press).”
• Play at Work: An Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research (2018, methodology): “First, most of the studies reviewed here make use of different scales to measure play, such as the Adult Playfulness Scale (Glynn & Webster, 1992), the Short Measure for Adult Playfulness (Proyer, 2012a), the Older Adult Playfulness Scale (Yarnal & Qian, 2011), and the Playfulness Scale for Adults (”
• A new structural model for the study of adult playfulness: Assessment and exploration of an understudied individual differences variable (2017, methodology): “Convergent validity was supported by good convergence with three other playfulness questionnaires (Barnett, 2007; Glynn & Webster, 1992; Proyer, 2012b).”
• The well-being of playful adults: Adult playfulness, subjective well-being, physical well-being, and the pursuit of enjoyable activities (2013, methodology): “This seems to be further substantiated by Proyer (2012c), who found that playfulness relates to the satisfaction of intrinsic life goals with health being one of them.”
• Development and initial assessment of a short measure for adult playfulness: The SMAP (2012, background): “Based on earlier studies (e.g., Barnett, 1991; Proyer, 2012), it is expected that higher scores in the new measure are positively ment of a short measure for adult playfulness: The SMAP.”