Testing associations between language use in descriptions of playfulness and age, gender, and self-reported playfulness in German-speaking adults.

ABSTRACT: Adult playfulness describes individual differences in (re)framing everyday situations as personally interesting, and/or entertaining, and/or intellectually stimulating. We aimed at extending initial evidence on the interconnectedness between language use and adult playfulness by asking 264 participants (M = 26.5 years, SD = 9.7; 66.7% women) to provide written descriptions of their understanding of playfulness (mean length: 30.6 words; SD = 24.1) and collected self-reports of their playfulness. We used the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count methodology to quantitatively analyze the language use in these descriptions and tested the associations with individual differences in participants' age, gender, and playfulness. While higher expressions in all measures of playfulne

SUBMITTER: Brauer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9477000 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature