The Living Experience of Feeling Playful

The purpose of this study was to investigate the living experience of feeling playful. Parse's research method was used to answer the question: What is the structure of the living experience of feeling playful? The participants were 10 persons, ages 9 to 83, living in the United States. The cen...

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Published inNursing science quarterly Vol. 30; no. 3; p. 235
Main Authors Baumann, Steven L, Tanzi, Donna, Lewis, Tricia A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.07.2017
Subjects
Emotions
Humanism
Humans
Nursing Theory
Play and Playthings
feeling playful
nursing
humanbecoming
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Summary:The purpose of this study was to investigate the living experience of feeling playful. Parse's research method was used to answer the question: What is the structure of the living experience of feeling playful? The participants were 10 persons, ages 9 to 83, living in the United States. The central finding of the study is the living experience of feeling playful is entertaining amusements amid burdens with uplifting endeavors strengthening affiliations with blissful moments of unfettered unfolding. The living experience of feeling playful is discussed in relation to the principles of the humanbecoming paradigm and in relation to how it can inform further research.
ISSN:1552-7409
DOI:10.1177/0894318417708408