“…The literature about the role of play in child development primarily stems from studies assessing interaction quality (Aoki, Zeanah, Heller, & Bakshi, 2002;Brazelton & Cramer, 1991;Desmarais, 2006;Feldman, Keren, Gross-Rozval, & Tyano, 2004;Keren, Feldman, Namdari-Weinbaum, Spitzer, & Tyano, 2005;Waldman-Levi, 2012). To expand on how play is assessed, Jones, Hutchings, Erjavec, and Viktor (2015) described the development and initial testing of a new observation scale to code parental play behaviors, including talking, playing, touching, moving, and responding. Their analysis resulted in the three-component model, including positive physical encouragement, sensitive parenting, and verbal engagement during infant-parent interaction, but it did not fully assess parental support for playfulness behavior.…”