Date of Award
3-1936
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Department
Education
First Advisor
William Chandler
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
Whatever else it may be, play is the expenditure of surplus energy, physical, psychic and sociologic. Some have contended that it is instinctive, since all animals play. But there may be no instincts, or if there are and play be not one of them, then it is easily formed by habit. To play is animal and human, since all normal beings are impelled to exert themselves; and when this is done naturally, spontaneously and under circumstances that give pleasure and emotional satisfaction, we call it play. Otherwise, if exertion is force, monotonous, irksome, disagreeable, nonstimulating and void of pleasure, it is work.
Recommended Citation
Wagner, LaVerne H., "Play and Its Relation to Behavior Problems" (1936). Bachelors’ Theses. 2156.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/2156
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.