Playfulness: Its Relationship to Imagination and Creativity

By J. N. Lieberman. 2014

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The Playful Advantage: How Playfulness Enhances Coping with Stress (2013, unknown): “Evidence for the playful disposition has been reliably detected and measured with children (Barnett, 1990, 1991a, 1991b; Lieberman, 1977) and, more recently, with adults (Barnett, 2007, 2011–12; Glynn & Webster, 1992, 1993; Guitard, Ferland, & Dutil, 2005; Trevlas, Grammatikopoulos, Tsigilis, & Zach”
Pretend play, creativity, and emotion regulation in children. (2012, methodology): “During the second session, three tasks were administered: (1) the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, short form (WCST-64; Haaland, Vranes, Goodwin & Garry, 1987), to measure executive functioning, (2) a storytelling task using Mayer’s (1967) book A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog to measure creativity in storytell”
Examining playfulness in adults: Testing its correlates with personality, positive psychological functioning, goal aspirations, and multi-methodically assessed ingenuity (2012, unknown): “This fits well to earlier ideas as, for example, Lieberman (1977) lists the ability of making fun of oneself as a part of social-emotional playfulness.”
The well-being of playful adults: Adult playfulness, subjective well-being, physical well-being, and the pursuit of enjoyable activities (2013, background): “Based on broader descriptions of the playfulness trait (e.g., Barnett 1990, 1991ab, 2007; Glynn & Webster 1992; Lieberman 1977; Proyer 2012a) one might assume that greater playfulness relates to greater levels of activity (e.g., exploratory behaviour, more frequent time spent in the nature, etc.).”
Pretend Play, Divergent Thinking, and Math Achievement in Girls: A Longitudinal Study (2015, result): “Other studies have found similar relations between both positive and negative affect in play and divergent thinking (Lieberman, 1977; Russ & Grossman-McKee, 1990; Russ & Schafer, 2006).”
A new structural model for the study of adult playfulness: Assessment and exploration of an understudied individual differences variable (2017, background): “, Lieberman, 1977) as a part of playfulness or propose joy as the emotional response to play or playful behaviors. This limits emotional experiences associated with playfulness to one specific type of positive emotion while disregarding others. Restricting adult playfulness to joy seems too narrow f”
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation (2013, background): “Evidence that playfulness (as distinct from play) is linked to creativity came from research by Nina Lieberman (1977). She defined playfulness as a state in which the child exhibits spontaneity, manifest joy and a sense of 90 Childhood play and creativity”
Development and initial assessment of a short measure for adult playfulness: The SMAP (2012, background): “For example, research in areas such as better academic performance in playful adults (Proyer, 2011) or relations to divergent thinking (e.g., Lieberman, 1977; Proyer, 2012) can be expanded.”