The Relationship Between Measures of Physical Growth and Gross Motor Performance of Primary-Grade School Children

Seils, LeRoy George

doi:10.1080/10671188.1951.10761945

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“…Preschool children had not previously been tested on a balance board, and earlier studies had employed variations of the stick test as used by Bass (1939). Significant age differences agreed with the findings of Seils (1951), Hanson (1965) and Keogh (1965), although Hanson (1965) did find girls superior to boys within age groups, but not overall.…”

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“…A review of the literature revealed that the majority of studies employed a series of test items for both dynamic and static balance on the same Ss. A summation of the findings of this research (Bayley, 1935;Drowatzky & Zuccato, 1967;Goodenough & Smart, 1935;Kahms, 1966;Keogh, 1965;McCaskill & Wellman, 1938;Seils, 1951) indicates that balancing ability is reflected by different age levels, that sex is not a signi-• ficant factor, and that dynamic balance tests correlate poorly with tests of static balance.…”

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Dynamic and Static Balancing Ability of Preschool Children

DeOreo

Wade

1971

Journal of Motor Behavior

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Performance differences in dynamic and static balance ability of 150 preschool Ss aged 3,4, and 5 yr. were studied. Ss performed 4 balance-beam tasks and 2 balance-board tasks. An Age by Sex (3 × 2) factorial, design employing both univariate and multivariate ANOVA techniques were the statistics used. For both dynamic and static balance Age was highly significant, and the use of multivariate ANOVA indicated significant sex differences on the static balance tasks. The appropriateness of multivariate techniques where more than one dependent variable is measured on the same population was discussed, and the need to take into account the relationship between these variables when analyzing the data was noted.

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Dynamic and Static Balancing Ability of Preschool Children

DeOreo

Wade

1971

Journal of Motor Behavior

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“…Second-order partial correlations between performance and age, stature, and weight in Oaxaca and Pere children are generally similar to those for Philadelphia children (Tables 2 and 3) and other better nourished samples (Seils, 1951;Rarick and Oyster, 1964;Malina, 1975). In general, stature, controlling for age and weight, is moderately correlated with performance in the three samples, whereas weight, controlling for age and stature, correlates well only with grip strength.…”

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Adaptive significance of small body size: Strength and motor performance of school children in Mexico and Papua New Guinea

Malina

Little

Shoup

et al. 1987

American J Phys Anthropol

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The postulated superior functional efficiency in association with reduced body size under conditions of chronic protein-energy undernutrition was considered in school children from rural Mexico and coastal Papua New Guinea. Grip strength and three measures of motor performance were measured in cross-sectional samples of children 6-16 years of age from a rural agricultural community in Oaxaca, Mexico, and from the coastal community Pere on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. The strength and performance of a mixed-longitudinal sample of well nourished children from Philadelphia was used as a reference. The Oaxaca and Pere children are significantly shorter and lighter and are not as strong as the well nourished children. Motor performances of Pere children compare favorably to those of the better-nourished Philadelphia children, whereas those of the Oaxaca children are poorer. Throwing performance is more variable. When expressed relative to body size, strength is similar in the three samples, but the running and jumping performances of Pere children per unit body size are better than the relative performances of Oaxaca and Philadelphia children. Throwing performance per unit body size is better in the undernourished children. The influence of age, stature, and weight on the performance of Oaxaca and Pere children is generally similar to that for well nourished children. These results suggest that the hypothesized adaptive significance of small body size for the functional efficiency of populations living under conditions of chronic undernutrition varies between populations and with performance tasks.

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“…Few other studies have considered maturity-associated variance in MC in these age intervals. Seils (1951) found low-to-moderate correlations between skeletal age and gross motor skill performance in primaryschool children. Kerr (1975) used a serial tapping task to analyse movement control in 60 participants, aged 5, 7 and 9 years.…”

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Change, stability and prediction of gross motor co-ordination in Portuguese children

Antunes

Maia

Thomis

et al. 2015

Annals of Human Biology

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Background: The knowledge about intra-and inter-individual variation can stimulate attempts at description, interpretation and prediction of motor co-ordination (MC). Aim: To analyse change, stability and prediction of motor co-ordination (MC) in children. Subjects and methods: A total of 158 children, 83 boys and 75 girls, aged 6, 7 and 8 years, were evaluated in 2006 and re-evaluated in 2012 at 12, 13 and 14 years of age. MC was assessed through the Kiphard-Schilling's body co-ordination test and growth, skeletal maturity, physical fitness, fundamental motor skills (FMS), physical activity and socioeconomic status (SES) were measured and/or estimated. Results: Repeated-measures MANOVA indicated that there was a significant effect of group, sex and time on a linear combination of the MC tests. Univariate tests revealed that group 3 (8-14 years) scored significantly better than group 1 (6-12 years) in all MC tests and boys performed better than girls in hopping for height and moving sideways. Scores in MC were also higher at follow-up than at baseline. Inter-age correlations for MC were between 0.15-0.74. Childhood predictors of MC were growth, physical fitness, FMS, physical activity and SES. Biological maturation did not contribute to prediction of MC. Conclusion: MC seemed moderately stable from childhood through adolescence and, additionally, inter-individual predictors at adolescence were growth, FMS, physical fitness, physical activity and SES.

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The Relationship Between Measures of Physical Growth and Gross Motor Performance of Primary-Grade School Children

Cited by 27 publications

References 12 publications

Dynamic and Static Balancing Ability of Preschool Children

Dynamic and Static Balancing Ability of Preschool Children

Adaptive significance of small body size: Strength and motor performance of school children in Mexico and Papua New Guinea

Change, stability and prediction of gross motor co-ordination in Portuguese children

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