READ ME File For 'Play_and_children_s_mental_health_in_the_face_of_adversity.xlsx' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1939 ReadMe Author: Ella Patterson, University of Southampton This dataset supports the thesis entitled Play and children’s mental health in the face of adversity AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2021 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA This dataset contains: A dataset containing the two separate datasets relevant to chapter 1 and chapter 2 of the thesis entitled Play and children’s mental health in the face of adversity. The document contains 3 excel sheets. Excel sheet entitled "Empirical paper" contains the data set relating to Chapter 2 Excel sheet entitled "Meta-analysis- SMD" contains the data used to complete the meta-analysis (Chapter 1). NB- SMD = Standardised mean difference. Excel sheet entitled "Meta-analysis- moderators" contains the data used to complete the moderator analysis in the meta-analysis (Chapter 1). Any abbreivations in the dataset are outlined in the thesis. Date of data collection: April 2020 to December 2020 Information about geographic location of data collection: Data was collected in the UK Licence: Related projects/Funders: This study is part of the larger longitudinal Co-SPYCE (COVID-19: Supporting Parents and Young Children during Epidemics) study, funded by UKRI and the Westminster Foundation. The research protocol of the study is available via the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/rukpt/). Related publication:n/a Date that the file was created: August, 2021