School children's physical activity, motor competence, and corresponding self-perception
- Background: The relationship between engagement in physical activity and the development of motor competence (MC) is considered to be reciprocal and dynamic throughout childhood and adolescence. The 10-month follow-up study aimed to explore this reciprocal relationship and investigated whether the relationship is mediated by the corresponding self-perception of MC (PMC).
Methods: A total of 51 children aged between 10 and 11 years (M = 10.27 [0.45]) participated in the study (52.9% boys, 47.1% girls). As an indicator for physical activity, the average vigorous physical activity (VPA) per day was measured by ActiGraph accelerometers. Two aspects of MC and PMC were recorded: self-movement and object movement. Saturated pathway models in a cross-lagged panel design with 2 measurement points were analyzed.
Results: Reciprocal and direct relationships between VPA and MC object movement respectively MC self-movement were not found in longitudinal analyses with PMC as a mediator. Indirect effects of MC at t1 on VPA at t2 via PMC wereBackground: The relationship between engagement in physical activity and the development of motor competence (MC) is considered to be reciprocal and dynamic throughout childhood and adolescence. The 10-month follow-up study aimed to explore this reciprocal relationship and investigated whether the relationship is mediated by the corresponding self-perception of MC (PMC).
Methods: A total of 51 children aged between 10 and 11 years (M = 10.27 [0.45]) participated in the study (52.9% boys, 47.1% girls). As an indicator for physical activity, the average vigorous physical activity (VPA) per day was measured by ActiGraph accelerometers. Two aspects of MC and PMC were recorded: self-movement and object movement. Saturated pathway models in a cross-lagged panel design with 2 measurement points were analyzed.
Results: Reciprocal and direct relationships between VPA and MC object movement respectively MC self-movement were not found in longitudinal analyses with PMC as a mediator. Indirect effects of MC at t1 on VPA at t2 via PMC were identified (self-movement: beta = 0.13, 95% confidence interval, 0.04 to 0.26; object movement: beta = 0.14, 95% confidence interval, 0.01 to 0.49).
Conclusion: The results highlight the importance of MC and PMC in promoting children's VPA. However, VPA does not drive the development of MC.…
| Author details: | Jeffrey SallenORCiDGND, Christian Andrä, Sebastian LudygaORCiD, Manuel Mücke, Christian HerrmannORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2019-0507 |
| ISSN: | 1543-3080 |
| ISSN: | 1543-5474 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32839350 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of physical activity and health |
| Subtitle (English): | a longitudinal analysis of reciprocal relationships |
| Publisher: | Human Kinetics Publ. |
| Place of publishing: | Champaign |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/08/24 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/09/27 |
| Tag: | MOBAK; SEMOK; fundamental movement skills; motor proficiency |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Number of pages: | 8 |
| First page: | 1083 |
| Last Page: | 1090 |
| Funding institution: | transnational E-RARE grant `CCMCURE (DFG)European Commission [SFB958]; E-RARE [ERL 138397]; Canadian; Institutes for Health ResearchCanadian Institutes of Health Research; (CIHR) [PJT 153000]; the E-RARE grant `CCMCURE |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften |
| DDC classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 796 Sportarten, Sportspiele | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
