Lynn A Barnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3779758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn A Barnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnett |
| SIGNATURE | BARNETT L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The inculcation of adult playfulness: From West to East
The marvel of adult playfulness has incited vigorous research efforts to define, demarcate, and explain its essence; however, all have been conducted with Westernized societies whose values exalt individualistic thinking and self-expression. This study explored whether such formulations of playfulness can be communicated and ultimately embraced by individuals whose native cultural values are incompatible. Three groups of female graduate students …
Play of Individuals and Societies
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Play has always had a special place in the world and for much of our literate history has been seen as capturing the true essence of the individual and the surrounding culture. All of the chapters in this book express the sentiment that we can see in play the embodiment of human beings as well as our societal cultures. This is evident in our aesthetic transcendent and everyday p…
The Effects of Depression on Leisure: Varying Relationships Between Enjoyment, Sociability, Participation, and Desired Outcomes in College Students
Depression leads to negative mood and affect, difficulty experiencing enjoyment in chosen activities (anhedonia), and a reduced desire for social interaction. This study compared 974 college students with different levels of depression (minimal, mild, and moderate to severe) relative to their desired outcomes for leisure, and their enjoyment of, participation and sociability in, different types of chosen leisure activities. Findings indicated con…
The Playful Advantage: How Playfulness Enhances Coping with Stress
Research on playfulness has long focused on children, while the study of its expression in adulthood has only recently been undertaken. This cross-sectional study investigated the interrelationship between playfulness in young adults, perceived stress, and styles of coping with 898 students from three universities. Findings revealed that playful individuals reported lower levels of perceived stress than their less playful counterparts, and more f…
What People Want From Their Leisure: The Contributions of Personality Facets in Differentially Predicting Desired Leisure Outcomes
This study explored how personality predicts the types of experiences one wants to have during free time. The importance of six free time outcome factors was predicted from the facets of the Big Five personality dimensions for university students. Results indicated that personality facets were highly predictive, and differentially so, depending on desired free time outcomes. Findings provide evidence for the interrelationships between the intrica…
How Do Playful People Play? Gendered and Racial Leisure Perspectives, Motives, and Preferences of College Students
Playfulness is an aspect of personality that predisposes individuals to reframe boring situations into more amusing ones for themselves. This study extends knowledge about the playfulness construct by contrasting college students who were high or low in playfulness relative to the activity preferences they make, the motives they have, and their perspectives on their leisure time. Significant differences were found in perspectives and motives but …
Winners” and “Losers”: The Effects of Being Allowed or Denied Entry into Competitive Extracurricular Activities
A number of high school extracurricular activities are competitive and selective, requiring aspiring students to apply and audition for membership. The process of trying out for two such teams, cheerleading and dance, was explored, and the reactions of girls who were successful were contrasted with those who were unsuccessful. Post-outcome assessments indicated significant differences in measures of subjective state (positive and negative emotion…
Flying High or Crashing Down: Girls' Accounts of Trying Out for Cheerleading and Dance
Largely absent from the literature on adolescent girls'extracurricular activities is exploration of the process and effects of vying for entry to extracurricular activities that are competitive and selective. This qualitative study contrasted the immediate and longer term effects of auditioning for two high school extracurricular activities (cheerleading, dance) on 18 girls who won admission and 18 who did not. One-on-one interviews collected imm…
Boredom in Free Time: Relationships with Personality, Affect, and Motivation for Different Gender, Racial and Ethnic Student Groups
The propensity to experience boredom in free time was investigated by exploring relationships with the individual's demographic characteristics, personality, motivational orientation, and affective style assessed through group-administered questionnaires to 999 university students. The self-as-entertainment personality attribute consistently predicted the likelihood that students would be bored, and inverse relationships with extraversion and int…
Accounting for Leisure Preferences from Within: The Relative Contributions of Gender, Race or Ethnicity, Personality, Affective Style, and Motivational Orientation
This study contributes to the literature by exploring the unique and combined contributions of gender, race or ethnicity (African-, Asian-, European-, Hispanic-American), personality (Big 5 traits, sensation seeking, self-as-entertainment), affective style (positive and negative affect, affect intensity), and motivational orientation (types of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation) in predicting seven general types of leisure activity preferences. 9…
Measuring the ABCs of Leisure Experience: Awareness, Boredom, Challenge, Distress
The psychometric properties of four aspects of leisure experience (Awareness, Boredom, Challenge, Distress), originally identified and tested with adolescents, were investigated with college students. Findings indicated that the original subscales were internally consistent and could be applied, with minor modification, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, college major, or employment. Interrelationships among the four leisure constructs of Awarene…
Developmental Benefits of Play for Children
Children occupy so much of their daily time and energy with play that philosophers, researchers, teachers, and parents alike have all wondered about the role of play in the child's development. Clearly, play must serve some functional, evolutionary benefit for the developing child. However, the exact nature of the benefits of play has yet to be agreed upon and many explanations and theories currently abound. Hypothesized benefits of play range fr…
Chips Off the Ol' Block: Parents' Leisure and Their Children's Play
The data reported in this paper represent initial efforts to seek to explain the antecedents of young children's playful behavior. The hypothesis that much of the child's play style is influenced by the “messages” that parents give from their own leisure was investigated. Preschool children were rated by several of their teachers on five play styles, and each of the child's parents provided information about his/her leisure. Correlational analyse…
The Effects of Encapsulation on Preschool Children's Imaginative Play
Recent research has shown that young children's playful behavior is related to normal cognitive development and this investigation was undertaken to illustrate the need for the design of playground
Theorizing about play: Critique and direction
This paper presents a review of the extant theoretical models of play behavior. Play theories can be clustered insofar as they suggest different motivations and presuppose distinct underlying mechanisms for playful behavior. The biological view sees the motivation to play as instinctually determined and suggests a genetically inherited predisposition to emit playful responses. The play theories discussed under this heading stress the importance o…
Accounting for Leisure Preferences from Within: The Relative Contributions of Gender, Race or Ethnicity, Personality, Affective Style, and Motivational Orientation
This study contributes to the literature by exploring the unique and combined contributions of gender, race or ethnicity (African-, Asian-, European-, Hispanic-American), personality (Big 5 traits, sensation seeking, self-as-entertainment), affective style (positive and negative affect, affect intensity), and motivational orientation (types of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation) in predicting seven general types of leisure activity preferences. 9…
Measuring the ABCs of Leisure Experience: Awareness, Boredom, Challenge, Distress
The psychometric properties of four aspects of leisure experience (Awareness, Boredom, Challenge, Distress), originally identified and tested with adolescents, were investigated with college students. Findings indicated that the original subscales were internally consistent and could be applied, with minor modification, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, college major, or employment. Interrelationships among the four leisure constructs of Awarene…
The Playful Advantage: How Playfulness Enhances Coping with Stress
Research on playfulness has long focused on children, while the study of its expression in adulthood has only recently been undertaken. This cross-sectional study investigated the interrelationship between playfulness in young adults, perceived stress, and styles of coping with 898 students from three universities. Findings revealed that playful individuals reported lower levels of perceived stress than their less playful counterparts, and more f…
What People Want From Their Leisure: The Contributions of Personality Facets in Differentially Predicting Desired Leisure Outcomes
This study explored how personality predicts the types of experiences one wants to have during free time. The importance of six free time outcome factors was predicted from the facets of the Big Five personality dimensions for university students. Results indicated that personality facets were highly predictive, and differentially so, depending on desired free time outcomes. Findings provide evidence for the interrelationships between the intrica…
Developmental Benefits of Play for Children
Children occupy so much of their daily time and energy with play that philosophers, researchers, teachers, and parents alike have all wondered about the role of play in the child's development. Clearly, play must serve some functional, evolutionary benefit for the developing child. However, the exact nature of the benefits of play has yet to be agreed upon and many explanations and theories currently abound. Hypothesized benefits of play range fr…
The Effects of Depression on Leisure: Varying Relationships Between Enjoyment, Sociability, Participation, and Desired Outcomes in College Students
Depression leads to negative mood and affect, difficulty experiencing enjoyment in chosen activities (anhedonia), and a reduced desire for social interaction. This study compared 974 college students with different levels of depression (minimal, mild, and moderate to severe) relative to their desired outcomes for leisure, and their enjoyment of, participation and sociability in, different types of chosen leisure activities. Findings indicated con…
Chips Off the Ol' Block: Parents' Leisure and Their Children's Play
The data reported in this paper represent initial efforts to seek to explain the antecedents of young children's playful behavior. The hypothesis that much of the child's play style is influenced by the “messages” that parents give from their own leisure was investigated. Preschool children were rated by several of their teachers on five play styles, and each of the child's parents provided information about his/her leisure. Correlational analyse…
Boredom in Free Time: Relationships with Personality, Affect, and Motivation for Different Gender, Racial and Ethnic Student Groups
The propensity to experience boredom in free time was investigated by exploring relationships with the individual's demographic characteristics, personality, motivational orientation, and affective style assessed through group-administered questionnaires to 999 university students. The self-as-entertainment personality attribute consistently predicted the likelihood that students would be bored, and inverse relationships with extraversion and int…
How Do Playful People Play? Gendered and Racial Leisure Perspectives, Motives, and Preferences of College Students
Playfulness is an aspect of personality that predisposes individuals to reframe boring situations into more amusing ones for themselves. This study extends knowledge about the playfulness construct by contrasting college students who were high or low in playfulness relative to the activity preferences they make, the motives they have, and their perspectives on their leisure time. Significant differences were found in perspectives and motives but …
Winners” and “Losers”: The Effects of Being Allowed or Denied Entry into Competitive Extracurricular Activities
A number of high school extracurricular activities are competitive and selective, requiring aspiring students to apply and audition for membership. The process of trying out for two such teams, cheerleading and dance, was explored, and the reactions of girls who were successful were contrasted with those who were unsuccessful. Post-outcome assessments indicated significant differences in measures of subjective state (positive and negative emotion…
Flying High or Crashing Down: Girls' Accounts of Trying Out for Cheerleading and Dance
Largely absent from the literature on adolescent girls'extracurricular activities is exploration of the process and effects of vying for entry to extracurricular activities that are competitive and selective. This qualitative study contrasted the immediate and longer term effects of auditioning for two high school extracurricular activities (cheerleading, dance) on 18 girls who won admission and 18 who did not. One-on-one interviews collected imm…
Theorizing about play: Critique and direction
This paper presents a review of the extant theoretical models of play behavior. Play theories can be clustered insofar as they suggest different motivations and presuppose distinct underlying mechanisms for playful behavior. The biological view sees the motivation to play as instinctually determined and suggests a genetically inherited predisposition to emit playful responses. The play theories discussed under this heading stress the importance o…
The inculcation of adult playfulness: From West to East
The marvel of adult playfulness has incited vigorous research efforts to define, demarcate, and explain its essence; however, all have been conducted with Westernized societies whose values exalt individualistic thinking and self-expression. This study explored whether such formulations of playfulness can be communicated and ultimately embraced by individuals whose native cultural values are incompatible. Three groups of female graduate students …
Theorizing about play: Critique and direction
This paper presents a review of the extant theoretical models of play behavior. Play theories can be clustered insofar as they suggest different motivations and presuppose distinct underlying mechanisms for playful behavior. The biological view sees the motivation to play as instinctually determined and suggests a genetically inherited predisposition to emit playful responses. The play theories discussed under this heading stress the importance o…
The Effects of Encapsulation on Preschool Children's Imaginative Play
Recent research has shown that young children's playful behavior is related to normal cognitive development and this investigation was undertaken to illustrate the need for the design of playground
Chips Off the Ol' Block: Parents' Leisure and Their Children's Play
The data reported in this paper represent initial efforts to seek to explain the antecedents of young children's playful behavior. The hypothesis that much of the child's play style is influenced by the “messages” that parents give from their own leisure was investigated. Preschool children were rated by several of their teachers on five play styles, and each of the child's parents provided information about his/her leisure. Correlational analyse…
Developmental Benefits of Play for Children
Children occupy so much of their daily time and energy with play that philosophers, researchers, teachers, and parents alike have all wondered about the role of play in the child's development. Clearly, play must serve some functional, evolutionary benefit for the developing child. However, the exact nature of the benefits of play has yet to be agreed upon and many explanations and theories currently abound. Hypothesized benefits of play range fr…
Measuring the ABCs of Leisure Experience: Awareness, Boredom, Challenge, Distress
The psychometric properties of four aspects of leisure experience (Awareness, Boredom, Challenge, Distress), originally identified and tested with adolescents, were investigated with college students. Findings indicated that the original subscales were internally consistent and could be applied, with minor modification, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, college major, or employment. Interrelationships among the four leisure constructs of Awarene…
Flying High or Crashing Down: Girls' Accounts of Trying Out for Cheerleading and Dance
Largely absent from the literature on adolescent girls'extracurricular activities is exploration of the process and effects of vying for entry to extracurricular activities that are competitive and selective. This qualitative study contrasted the immediate and longer term effects of auditioning for two high school extracurricular activities (cheerleading, dance) on 18 girls who won admission and 18 who did not. One-on-one interviews collected imm…
Boredom in Free Time: Relationships with Personality, Affect, and Motivation for Different Gender, Racial and Ethnic Student Groups
The propensity to experience boredom in free time was investigated by exploring relationships with the individual's demographic characteristics, personality, motivational orientation, and affective style assessed through group-administered questionnaires to 999 university students. The self-as-entertainment personality attribute consistently predicted the likelihood that students would be bored, and inverse relationships with extraversion and int…
Accounting for Leisure Preferences from Within: The Relative Contributions of Gender, Race or Ethnicity, Personality, Affective Style, and Motivational Orientation
This study contributes to the literature by exploring the unique and combined contributions of gender, race or ethnicity (African-, Asian-, European-, Hispanic-American), personality (Big 5 traits, sensation seeking, self-as-entertainment), affective style (positive and negative affect, affect intensity), and motivational orientation (types of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation) in predicting seven general types of leisure activity preferences. 9…
Winners” and “Losers”: The Effects of Being Allowed or Denied Entry into Competitive Extracurricular Activities
A number of high school extracurricular activities are competitive and selective, requiring aspiring students to apply and audition for membership. The process of trying out for two such teams, cheerleading and dance, was explored, and the reactions of girls who were successful were contrasted with those who were unsuccessful. Post-outcome assessments indicated significant differences in measures of subjective state (positive and negative emotion…
How Do Playful People Play? Gendered and Racial Leisure Perspectives, Motives, and Preferences of College Students
Playfulness is an aspect of personality that predisposes individuals to reframe boring situations into more amusing ones for themselves. This study extends knowledge about the playfulness construct by contrasting college students who were high or low in playfulness relative to the activity preferences they make, the motives they have, and their perspectives on their leisure time. Significant differences were found in perspectives and motives but …
The Playful Advantage: How Playfulness Enhances Coping with Stress
Research on playfulness has long focused on children, while the study of its expression in adulthood has only recently been undertaken. This cross-sectional study investigated the interrelationship between playfulness in young adults, perceived stress, and styles of coping with 898 students from three universities. Findings revealed that playful individuals reported lower levels of perceived stress than their less playful counterparts, and more f…
What People Want From Their Leisure: The Contributions of Personality Facets in Differentially Predicting Desired Leisure Outcomes
This study explored how personality predicts the types of experiences one wants to have during free time. The importance of six free time outcome factors was predicted from the facets of the Big Five personality dimensions for university students. Results indicated that personality facets were highly predictive, and differentially so, depending on desired free time outcomes. Findings provide evidence for the interrelationships between the intrica…
Play of Individuals and Societies
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Play has always had a special place in the world and for much of our literate history has been seen as capturing the true essence of the individual and the surrounding culture. All of the chapters in this book express the sentiment that we can see in play the embodiment of human beings as well as our societal cultures. This is evident in our aesthetic transcendent and everyday p…
The Effects of Depression on Leisure: Varying Relationships Between Enjoyment, Sociability, Participation, and Desired Outcomes in College Students
Depression leads to negative mood and affect, difficulty experiencing enjoyment in chosen activities (anhedonia), and a reduced desire for social interaction. This study compared 974 college students with different levels of depression (minimal, mild, and moderate to severe) relative to their desired outcomes for leisure, and their enjoyment of, participation and sociability in, different types of chosen leisure activities. Findings indicated con…
The inculcation of adult playfulness: From West to East
The marvel of adult playfulness has incited vigorous research efforts to define, demarcate, and explain its essence; however, all have been conducted with Westernized societies whose values exalt individualistic thinking and self-expression. This study explored whether such formulations of playfulness can be communicated and ultimately embraced by individuals whose native cultural values are incompatible. Three groups of female graduate students …
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