Table 2.

Descriptive and inferential statistics for child play by situation

		Child solitary play	Child collaborative play with mother	Child collaborative play with father	F(2, 38)
Exploratory play (duration in s)	M	31.68a	42.37b	54.79b	2.86*
	SD	52.38	37.78	58.93
	Median	7	30	30
Symbolic play (duration in s)	M	55.11a	55.84a	112.84b	3.22*
	SD	76.90	6.04	96.00
	Median	16	36	85

Reported F-values refer to the separate repeated measures anovas performed on the summary indexes of play;

^*P ≤ 0.01.

Means with different subscripts refer to significant differences in summary indexes at Tukey HSD post-hoc tests.