The Decline of Play and Rise in Children’s Mental Disorders; Peter Gray; In Psychology Today; 2010-01-26.
Teaser: There’s a reason kids are more anxious and depressed than ever.
- Peter Gray; Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life; Basic Books; 2013-03-05; 288 pages; kindle: $11, paper: $9+SHT.
- Peter Gray; Freedom to Learn, collected blog posts from Psychology Today; 2008-07-09 → 2011-10-11, 294 pages.
Teaser: the roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning
- J. Twenge, et al. (2010). Birth cohort increases in psychopathology among young Americans, 1938-2007: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the MMPI. In press, Clinical Psychology Review 30, 145-154.
Nearby: Jean M. Twenge; Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013; In Social Indicators Research; 2015-04; 36 pages; draft; paywall. separately filled.
- J. Twenge et al. (2004). Its beyond my control: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of increasing externality in locus of control, 1960-2002. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 308-319.
- J. H. Pryor, et al. (2007). The American freshman: Forty-year trends, 1966-2006. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute.
- Hara Estroff Marano. A Nation of Wimps
- Lenore Skenazy Free Range Kids.
- K. C. Herman, et al. (2009). Childhood depression: Rethinking the role of school. Psychology in the Schools, 46, 433-446.
- M. Csikszentmihalyi, J. Hunter. (2003). Happiness in everyday life: The uses of experience sampling. Journal of Happiness Studies, 4, 185-199.