Exciting news from our Play team! We’re thrilled to announce that their paper, “Disabling fear: Parental risk-tolerance in play for children with disabilities”, has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Play! This is one of the few papers examining risk tolerance in parents of children with disabilities! Congratulations once again to Paige and Matthew for this outstanding achievement!
Abstract: Children with disabilities (CWD) face a heightened risk of mental health challenges, demanding urgent attention. Despite the recognized significance of play for mental well-being, limited research explores the role of play, especially risky play, in CWD. This study investigates parental perspectives on risky play in CWD and its links to child playfulness, parent-child relationships, and problem symptoms. One hundred and five participants, parents of CWD (n=52) and without (n=53), were recruited via Prolific and surveyed on various questionnaires. Findings indicated significant disparities between parents of CWD and without disabilities groups, including group differences in playfulness, problem symptoms, and child-parent relationships and positive associations across all participants and between groups on all measures, emphasizing the interplay of key variables. No significant differences were found in measures of risk tolerance and rough-and-tumble play. Future research should expand these inquiries to various disability categories and consider alternative measures to validate these exploratory findings.
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