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Construct Validity of the Affect in Play Scale - Brief Rating (APS-BR)

Cordiano, Tori Jo Sacha
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1239897798

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2009, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
The aim of this study was to enhance the construct validity of the Affect in Play Scale – Brief Rating (APS-BR) by investigating both convergent and discriminant validity. The APS-BR is an adaptation of the Affect in Play Scale (APS) that allows an observer to score children’s cognitive and affective processes in pretend play without the use of videotape. Convergent validity was assessed through relationships between pretend play and both divergent thinking and the personality variable of openness to experience. Openness to experience was assessed via self- and parent-report adaptations of Costa and McCrae’s NEO Personality Inventory – Revised (NEO PI-R; 1992). Discriminant validity was assessed by examining relationships between pretend play and the personality variables of agreeableness and conscientiousness on the NEO PI-R. It was hypothesized that organization, imagination, and affect expression in play on the APS-BR would relate to divergent thinking, and that imagination, affect expression, and comfort in play would relate to openness to experience. No significant relationships were expected between pretend play and either agreeableness or conscientiousness. 81 first- and second-grade children were assessed using the APS-BR, the Alternate Uses Test (a measure of divergent thinking), and a self-report adaptation of the NEO PI-R. Parents reported on aspects of their children’s personality using a second adaptation of the NEO PI-R. The main findings were that organization and imagination in play significantly related to divergent thinking, as hypothesized. Also as hypothesized, imagination, affect expression, and comfort in play significantly related to parent-report openness to experience. As expected, no significant relationships were found between pretend play and either agreeableness or conscientiousness. The results of this study contribute to the construct validity of the APS-BR and support its use in clinical and research settings. In addition, results also support the theory that play processes would relate to both divergent thinking and openness to experience.
Sandra Russ, PhD (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Short, PhD (Committee Member)
Anastasia Dimitropoulos, PhD (Committee Member)
H. Lester Kirchner, PhD (Committee Member)
126 p.
Personality; Psychological Tests; Psychology
Child psychology; psychology; child assessment; pretend play; play assessment; personality; openness to experience

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  • Cordiano, T. J. S. (2009). Construct Validity of the Affect in Play Scale - Brief Rating (APS-BR) [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1239897798

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cordiano, Tori Jo. Construct Validity of the Affect in Play Scale - Brief Rating (APS-BR). 2009. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1239897798.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cordiano, Tori Jo. "Construct Validity of the Affect in Play Scale - Brief Rating (APS-BR)." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1239897798

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