title: Note on psychometric properties of playfulness scales with adolescents.
abstract: 105 female and 85 male high school students completed two scales designed to measure playfulness, the Playfulness Scale for Adults and the Adult Playfulness Scale, and two scales designed to measure creativity, the Similes Test and The Franck Drawing Completion Test. The playfulness scales exhibited high internal consistency and good construct validity. Cronbach alpha was .84 for the Playfulness Scale for Adults and .88 for the Adult Playfulness Scale, and split-half reliability was .79 (Spearman-Brown) and .79 (Guttman) for the Adult Playfulness Scale and .87 (Spearman-Brown) and .86 (Guttman) for the Playfulness Scale for Adults. 2-wk. test-retest reliability for the Playfulness Scale for Adults was .89, which compared favorably to the test-retest reliability of .84 previously reported for the Adult Playfulness Scale.
authors.affiliation: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Department of Psychology, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666, USA.
authors.forename: Gerald A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Fix
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schaefer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010988:Play and Playthings; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires