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. 2023 Dec 5;14:1287274. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1287274

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and intercorrelations of all study variables.

N M SD ICC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 Children’s playfulness (S)1 526 3.20 0.48 0.00 1
2 Social spontaneity (S) 523 3.23 0.68 0.00 0.64*** 1
3 Cognitive spontaneity (S) 525 3.22 0.68 0.00 0.67*** 0.46*** 1
4 Physical spontaneity (S) 523 3.44 0.60 0.00 0.62*** 0.38*** 0.41*** 1
5 Sense of humor (S) 523 2.84 0.78 0.01 0.48*** 0.32*** 0.32*** 0.27*** 1
6 Manifest joy (S) 521 3.27 0.68 0.00 0.65*** 0.40*** 0.41*** 0.45*** 0.32*** 1
7 Social self-concept 1 466 3.39 0.70 0.02 0.54*** 0.41*** 0.28*** 0.31*** 0.07 0.41*** 1
8 Children’s playfulness (P)1 541 3.79 0.60 0.04 0.03 0.01 0.07 −0.06 0.02 0.07 0.16* 1
9 Social spontaneity (P) 541 3.53 0.76 0.06 −0.01 −0.03 0.04 −0.06 −0.11* 0.09* 0.23*** 0.65*** 1
10 Cognitive spontaneity (P) 541 3.82 0.76 0.01 0.05 −0.02 0.09* 0.02 −0.05 0.06 0.10 0.63*** 0.66*** 1
11 Physical spontaneity (P) 541 3.91 0.76 0.03 0.01 0.02 0.01 −0.05 0.02 0.03 0.11 0.77*** 0.43*** 0.45*** 1
12 Sense of humor (P) 541 3.57 0.80 0.01 −0.05 −0.0.04 0.00 −0.09* −0.01 0.00 0.11 0.76*** 0.54*** 0.51*** 0.61*** 1
13 Manifest joy (P) 541 4.13 0.66 0.01 0.09 0.04 0.10* −0.01 0.08 0.07 . 11 0.84*** 0.57*** 0.65*** 0.67*** 0.61***

1latent model; (S) = children’s self-report; (P) = teachers’ proxy report; p < 0.10; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.