In the ViRMa project, we have been working on developing a theoretical approach in which we can try to understand how children manage risks in their daily lives (including in play). The paper describing this theoretical approach is published in International Journal of Play.

You can find it open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21594937.2024.2425539

Here are some links to other recently published ViRMa articles that might be of interest, too:

Title: Children’s risk assessment in street crossing using virtual reality: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2023.10.002

Title: Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground: https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2024.2437769

Title: Age, sex, sensation-seeking, and road-crossing: How does risk context impact children’s street-crossing? https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2024.2358103

Title: Distinct clusters of movement entropy in children’s exploration of a virtual reality balance beam: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1227469

Title: Individual differences in children’s movement variability in a virtual reality playground task: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2023.103171

Title: Assessment of psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the sensation seeking scale for children in a Norwegian sample: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1341609

Title: Psychometric Properties of the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Movement Skill Competence for Young Norwegian Children: https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125241245175

Have a good day! Ellen