@article{ref1,
title="Rough-and-tumble play and the development of physical aggression and emotion regulation: a five-year follow-up study",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="2010",
author="Flanders, Joseph L. and Simard, Melissa and Paquette, Daniel and Parent, Sophie and Vitaro, Frank and Pihl, Robert O. and Seguin, Jean R.",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="357-367",
abstract="This is a follow-up to a study demonstrating that rough-and-tumble play was related to physical aggression in the preschool years. Fathers reported on the frequency of father-child rough-and-tumble play interactions, and the degree to which fathers were dominant in the play dyad was observed and coded from play interactions. In this follow-up study, school-aged children’s physically aggressive behaviors and emotion regulation abilities were assessed with questionnaires 5 years later. Higher frequencies of father-child rough-and-tumble play in the preschool years were associated with more physical aggression and worse emotion regulation 5 years later for children whose fathers were less dominant, over and above the effects of physical aggression in the preschool years. Rough-and-tumble play was unrelated to these measures among children whose fathers were more dominant during play. This study shows that early rough-and-tumble play continues to be related to children’s psychosocial adjustment over time, and that the effect remains moderated by the quality of the father-child relationship during play.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/s10896-009-9297-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-009-9297-5"
}