Measurement of father–child rough-and-tumble play and its relations to child behavior

SamaelET · 2023-08-30T17:14:28+00:00

This meta analysis exploring the relationship between father–child physical play and child aggression, social competence, emotional skills, and self-regulation (1,521 father–child dyads) found significant effects :

Social competence (including popularity, peer competence, nonaggressive competitiveness, and social skills): Although there were many different assessments of child social competence used across the reviewed studies, all returned significant positive associations with either or both quantity and quality attributes of play.

Self-regulation (including attention regulation, effortful control, hyperactivity, and participation in risky behaviors): Self-regulation was positively associated with physical play frequency and quality.

Emotional skills: Emotional skills, such as emotional encoding and decoding, were higher in children who engage in regular physical play in all examined studies. Children who frequently engaged in physical play had lower emotional skills only when fathers’ dominance was low. Positive association is found with either or both quantity and quality attributes of play.

Aggression : In the majority of studies, results showing association between aggression and father-child physical play were nonsignificant. However, two studies described moderate negative associations, although the link between low father control or dominance and higher child aggression seems to be important.

Title	Measurement of father–child rough-and-tumble play and its relations to child behavior
Author	SamaelET
Upvotes	12
Comments	1
Date	August 30, 2023 5:13 PM UTC (2 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
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