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dc.contributor.author | Veiga, Guida | - |
dc.contributor.author | Neto, Carlos | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rieffe, Carolien | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-27T07:31:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-27T07:31:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Veiga, G., Neto, C, & Rieffe, C. (2016). Preschoolers’ free play - connections with emotional and social functioning. International Journal of Emotional Education, 8(1), 48-62. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 2073 7629 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/9993 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Play has an important role in various aspects of children’s development. However, time for free play has declined substantially over the last decades. To date, few studies have focused on the relationship between opportunities for free play and children’s social functioning. The aims of this study are to examine whether children´s free play is related to their social functioning and whether this relationship is mediated by children´s emotional functioning. Seventy-eight children (age, 55- 77 months) were tested on their theory of mind and emotion understanding. Parents reported on their children’s time for free play, empathic abilities, social competence and externalizing behaviors. The main findings showed that free play and children’s theory of mind are negatively related to externalizing behaviors. Empathy was strongly related to children’s social competence, but free play and social competence were not associated. Less time for free play is related to more disruptive behaviors in preschool children, however certain emotional functioning skills influence these behaviors independently of the time children have for free play. These outcomes suggest that free play might help to prevent the development of disruptive behaviors, but future studies should further examine the causality of this relationship. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Centre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional Health | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Volume 8 Issue 1;4 | - |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Emotional intelligence | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social skills | en_GB |
dc.subject | Children | en_GB |
dc.title | Preschoolers’ free play : connections with emotional and social functioning | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | IJEE, Volume 8 Issue 1 IJEE, Volume 8 Issue 1 |
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