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Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers
Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399). First, manifest and latent group comparisons (measurement...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667165 |
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author | Brauer, Kay Scherrer, Tiziana Proyer, René T. |
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description | Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399). First, manifest and latent group comparisons (measurement invariance [MI] analysis) showed that police officers were higher in SS than librarians, while we found no group differences for playfulness. Second, structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses showed that playfulness was widely positively related to SS, and findings were replicated across groups. However, the effects were of small to moderate size, and playfulness and SS shared between 4 and 22% variance. Our findings indicate that playfulness is not redundant with SS. Our study extends the understanding of adult playfulness by clarifying its overlap and distinctiveness from SS. |
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spelling | pubmed-82118742021-06-19 Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers Brauer, Kay Scherrer, Tiziana Proyer, René T. Front Psychol Psychology Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399). First, manifest and latent group comparisons (measurement invariance [MI] analysis) showed that police officers were higher in SS than librarians, while we found no group differences for playfulness. Second, structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses showed that playfulness was widely positively related to SS, and findings were replicated across groups. However, the effects were of small to moderate size, and playfulness and SS shared between 4 and 22% variance. Our findings indicate that playfulness is not redundant with SS. Our study extends the understanding of adult playfulness by clarifying its overlap and distinctiveness from SS. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8211874/ /pubmed/34149561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667165 Text en Copyright © 2021 Brauer, Scherrer and Proyer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Brauer, Kay Scherrer, Tiziana Proyer, René T. Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers |
title | Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers |
title_full | Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers |
title_fullStr | Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers |
title_full_unstemmed | Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers |
title_short | Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers |
title_sort | testing the associations between adult playfulness and sensation seeking: a sem analysis of librarians and police officers |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667165 |
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