The Positive Relationships of Playfulness With Indicators of Health, Activity, and Physical Fitness.

ABSTRACT: Adult playfulness is a personality trait that enables people to frame or reframe everyday situations in such a way that they experience them as entertaining, intellectually stimulating, or personally interesting. Earlier research supports the notion that playfulness is associated with the pursuit of an active way of life. While playful children are typically described as being active, only limited knowledge exists on whether playfulness in adults is also associated with physical activity. Additionally, existing literature has not considered different facets of playfulness, but only global playfulness. Therefore, we employed a multifaceted model that allows distinguishing among Other-directed, Lighthearted, Intellectual, and Whimsical playfulness. For narrowing this gap in the

SUBMITTER: Proyer RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6102740 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature