Contribution to Book
Parent–child physical play: Determinants and consequences
Parent–child play: Descriptions and implications
(1993)
Abstract
In recent years, researchers have made significant progress in describing the nature and determinants of this [physical] type of playful interchange between parents and their offspring / research in this area can be conveniently divided into two phases.
In the first phase of research, the focus was on description of the nature of the play partners, and the frequency and developmental course of this type of play / issues such as the impact of the sex of the child and sex of the parent were of interest as well as the influence of developmental shifts in both the child and the parent on the occurrence of this type of play.
In a second, and more recent phase, the implications of this type of parent–child play for children's development has been the focus / specifically, is children's development altered by variations in opportunities for participation in this type of play between parent and child, especially children's social interaction skills / review and evaluate the two phases of this research.
Disciplines
Publication Date
1993
Editor
K. MacDonald
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Series
SUNY series, children's play in society
DOI
http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-98052-007
Citation Information
James Carson, Virginia Burks Salzer and Ross D Parke. "Parent–child physical play: Determinants and consequences" Albany, NYParent–child play: Descriptions and implications (1993) p. 197 - 220 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/virginia_salzer/10/