Identifying Fundamental Motor Skills Building Blocks in Preschool Children from Brazil and the United States: A Network Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Martins, Clarice; Webster, E. Kipling; Bandeira, Paulo Felipe Ribeiro; Staiano, Amanda E.
Titel	Identifying Fundamental Motor Skills Building Blocks in Preschool Children from Brazil and the United States: A Network Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 10 (2022) 1, S.96-115 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Martins, Clarice)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2325-3193
Schlagwörter	Psychomotor Skills; Motor Development; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Network Analysis; Skill Development; Norm Referenced Tests; Physical Activities; Cultural Context; Brazil; United States; Test of Gross Motor Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychomotorische Aktivität; Motorische Entwicklung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Netzplantechnik; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Brasilien; USA
Abstract	Fundamental motor skills (FMSs) are building blocks for future movements and may vary according to cultural context. Moreover, network analysis can identify which skills contribute most to an overall set of skills. This study identified the most influential FMS in samples of U.S. and Brazil preschoolers that may contribute to a pattern of adequate motor skills. Participants were 101 Brazilian (55 boys; 47.52 ± 5.57 months of age) and 236 U.S. preschoolers (108 boys; 49.56 ± 8.27 months of age), who provided completed FMS assessments (Test of Gross Motor Development--third edition). Confirmatory factorial analysis was used to test alternative models. To quantify the importance of each variable in the network, the expected influence was calculated, using the network analysis Mplus, Rstudio, and JASP (version 0.14.1). Reduced models with nine and 11 FMS for Brazilian and U.S. preschoolers, respectively, showed adequate adjustment indexes. Jump (1.412) and one-hand strike (0.982) in the Brazilian sample, and hop (1.927) and dribble (0.858) in the U.S. sample, showed the highest expected influence values. This study presents a new perspective to report which are the most important FMS in preschoolers of different sociocultural contexts, which act as building blocks for the acquisition of more complex motor skills. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01