Development and Validation of Play Behavior Scale

Play serves as an essential component of a child’s developmental progress. Play is the prism through which children experience their own and other people’s worlds. Play promotes cognitive development by teaching children how to solve problems, recollect knowledge, and make decisions. Children also develop social skills through play by forming relationships, building trust, and forming bonds with their peers. The study aimed to identify the play behaviours of primary school children aged 6–8 years. Both the children’s social and non-social play behaviours were investigated in the study. The sample comprises 600 primary school children from Biswanath, Assam. Data were collected through simple random sampling method. The study also developed a tool for measuring social and non-social play behaviour in children. The constructed tool will be helpful to identify the types of play behaviours among children, which will further help parents and teachers provide a suitable environment for their optimum development. This study will also help identify socialization patterns among children.