Using multilevel modelling to investigate the links between play behaviour and children's emotional development

我的奖学金包括各种活动，旨在促进对儿童游戏行为及其与情感发展的联系的理解。基于我的博士研究成果，我将传播关于儿童在童年中期与朋友一起参与社交假装游戏的新证据，以及社交假装游戏行为与儿童情绪体验、表达和调节之间的关系的证据。例如，我的研究结果表明，假装游戏可以促进儿童积极的情绪表达，并可能成为儿童在社会环境中调节情绪的工具。除了发表期刊论文和参加国际会议来传播我的博士研究成果外，我还将在我的研究员期间进行有限的关于亲子游戏互动的新研究。我将与剑桥大学教育学院踏板中心(教育、发展和学习中的游戏研究中心)的同事合作，使用先进的量化方法来分析一个大型项目中关于亲子游戏互动的现有数据。这项工作有可能为父母和孩子的情绪健康和他们的游戏互动之间的联系，以及使用早期心理干预来预防情绪和行为问题提供新的证据。在我担任研究员期间，我还计划与广泛的非学术受众交流我的研究。例如，我将为PEDAL Hub撰写文章，这是一个由PEDAL中心运营的网站，旨在让研究人员、教师、家长/照顾者和政策制定者能够接触到世界各地的游戏研究。另一个计划是为非学术受众撰写我的研究总结，并向报纸谈论我的研究。我还计划向家长和老师举办讲座，以促进对影响儿童情绪发展的因素的了解，以及利用游戏促进儿童情绪表达和调节的潜力。为了扩大我与国际知名学者的网络，我计划在研究员期间访问哈佛教育研究生院。我计划与保罗·哈里斯教授(一位研究情绪发展、假装游戏和想象力的有影响力的心理学家)和哈佛教育研究生院的其他研究人员讨论我的研究。我希望这次访问将为我提供一个极好的机会，了解哈佛大学尖端的教育和心理学研究，并有机会发展研究想法和未来的合作。

My fellowship involves a variety of activities that aim to advance the understanding of children's play behaviour and its links to their emotional development. Based on my PhD research findings, I will disseminate new evidence on children's engagement in social pretend play with friends during middle childhood and evidence on the relations between social pretend play behaviour and children's emotional experience, expression and regulation. For example, findings from my research indicate that pretend play could promote positive emotional expression among children, and may serve as a vehicle for children to regulate their emotions in social contexts. Apart from publishing journal papers and attending international conferences to disseminate my PhD research findings, I will also undertake limited new research on parent-child play interaction during my fellowship. In collaboration with colleagues at the PEDAL Centre (Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning) at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, I will use advanced quantitative methods to analyse existing data on parent-child play interaction from a large-scale project. This work has the potential to provide new evidence on the links between parents' and children's emotional well-being and their play interaction, and on using early psychological intervention to prevent emotional and behavioural problems.During my fellowship, I also plan to communicate my research with a wide range of non-academic audiences. For example, I will write articles for PEDAL Hub, a website run by the PEDAL Centre that aims to make play research across the world accessible to researchers, teachers, parents/carers and policy makers. A further plan is to write summaries of my research for non-academic audiences and talk about my research to newspapers. I also plan to give talks to parents and teachers to promote understanding of factors influencing children's emotional development and the potential to use play to facilitate children's emotional expression and regulation.To broaden my network with internationally renowned scholars, I plan to visit the Harvard Graduate School of Education during my fellowship. I plan to discuss my research with Professor Paul Harris (an influential psychologist on emotional development, pretend play and imagination) and other researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I hope this visit will provide me with an excellent opportunity to learn about cutting-edge educational and psychological research at Harvard University and the opportunity to develop research ideas and future collaboration.