The Effectiveness of Playful Positive Psychology Interventions with Six Bricks and DUPLO® Play Box for Taiwan Children on Emotional Adaptation

Pay-Ling Harn, Shu-Hui Bo

This study was aimed at using the playful approach of Six Bricks and DUPLO® Play Box to devolve playful positive psychology interventions for children. Subsequently, the application of this program, its emotional adaptation effect, and process of change were explored.Twenty-four fifth graderswere recruited as study participants. The participants were randomly allocated to an experimental group and control group. The experimental group was invited to participate in the 3-hour playful positive psychology interventions. “Positive emotion scale for elementary students” and “elementary school students emotional competency scale” were used to conduct pretest and posttest for assessing the effects of the playful positive psychology interventions on the children’s emotional adaptation. In addition, observations were recorded during the intervention process to examine the process of change and key events of change. The findings of this study were as follows: (a) positive emotions and emotional competence were significantly enhanced. (b) The process of change comprised the following stages: promotion of joy and concentration, and gender-based collaboration; cross gender-based collaboration and interpersonal containment; developing strengths and gratitude to deepen resilience; from building positive personal experiences to co-creating apositive collective memory; and extracting elements of happiness to build psychological capitals.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.9.5.4