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Table 2 Mother and Father means and standard deviations for each metric at Time 1 and Time 2

From: Development and evaluation of a new measure of children’s play: the Children’s Play Scale (CPS)

 

T1

T2

Mothers

Fathers

Mothers

Fathers

1. Total hours spent playing

1470.36 (864.57)

1296.30 (615.39)

1346.99 (720.52)

1273.45 (733.17)

2. Hours spent playing outdoors

799.27 (610.43)

631.96 (356.90)

717.58 (496.23)

659.82 (472.40)

3. Hours spent playing in nature

175.58 (215.45)

127.24 (171.87)

173.36 (214.88)

136.66 (196.76)

4. Hours spent playing in adventurous places

364.39 (359.05)

304.02 (253.43)

345.19 (345.01)

306.27 (313.95)

5. Hours spent playing adventurously

1176.9 (916.33)

1101.62 (676.51)

1227.11 (758.9)

1173.15 (783.05)

6. Average level of adventurous play

2.53 (0.76)

2.62 (0.72)

2.74** (0.61)

2.72* (0.56)

  1. Note. Time 1 to Time 2 change is significant at * p < .05; ** p < .001