Journal of Play in Adulthood

Giving permission for adults to play. Play is often seen as inappropriate in adult settings, with social expectations causing adults to frame situations in such a way that we often lack permission to play. Semi-structured interviews with ...

These stats carry on building over time though! Our first peer-reviewed article way, back in 2019, was Giving permission for adults to play. That's currently at 6,023 times read on screen, 2,290 downloads! doi.org/10.5920/jpa....

Adult Play and Playfulness: A Qualitative Exploration of its Meanings and Importance Understanding how individuals flourish is critical to understanding adaptation to daily life stressors or the stress of major global and historical life events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The prese...

Then #1? That's Adult Play and Playfulness: A Qualitative Exploration of its Meanings and Importance at a massive 5,598 times read on screen, 599 downloads. doi.org/10.5920/jpa....

15 play experts' vision for a more playful future The current state of the world can negatively impact mental and physical health. Play has been show to be a powerful tool to help adults recover a sense of well-being; however, play is commonly e...

#2 is 15 play experts' vision for a more playful future, at 1,982 times read on screen, 311 downloads
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Playful learning: Linking play properties to learning designs - a higher education scoping review Playful learning in higher education is an emerging field of research, but it lacks a coherent definition or framework of implementation approaches. This article presents a scoping review of playful l...

#3 finds Playful learning: Linking play properties to learning designs - a higher education scoping review, at 1,516 times read on screen, 339 downloads doi.org/10.5920/jpa....

Adult play(fulness) and the art of stuff-mess-wonder: Creative playful learning with the Comicubes This article focuses on the materiality of adult playfulness. The studies synthesized in the article explore creative playful learning at adult age that manifests in association with using simple pape...

At #4 is Adult play(fulness) and the art of stuff-mess-wonder: Creative playful learning with the Comicubes, at 1,417 times read on screen, 190 downloads
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To play or not to play? A thematic analysis exploring the impact of adult-play on Primary teachers in Hong Kong. This study aimed to evaluate the subjective experience of a play-based intervention on a sample of primary school teachers in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews and reflective journals provided dat...

Totted up our top 5 most read articles from the last 3 years, just as a taster of what we have!
At #5 is To play or not to play? A thematic analysis exploring the impact of adult-play on Primary teachers in Hong Kong, at 1,237 read on screen, 181 downloads
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