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The relationship between motor competence and physical fitness from early childhood to early adulthood: a meta-analysis
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Center for Open Science, 2019.
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Abstract
- Background Motor competence and physical fitness are important factors for promoting positive trajectories of health over time. In 2008, Stodden and colleagues developed a model that discussed the role of both factors in physical activity. Furthermore, the authors hypothesized that the relationship between motor competence and physical fitness is reciprocal and changes over time. Objective The aim of the present meta-analysis was to synthesize the evidence on the relationship between motor competence and components of physical fitness from early childhood to early adulthood and the potential influence of age. Methods Scientific databases Web of Science and PubMed were used for literatures search. German as well as English studies were included that assessed typically developing children. In accordance with the PRISMA guidelines, 93 studies between 2005 and June 2018 were screened in full. Nineteen studies comprising of 32 samples, 87 single data points from 15,984 participants aged 4.5 to 20.4 years (Mage = 11.44, SD = 4.77) were included in the analysis. ResultsA random effects model was conducted for the meta-regression with age as moderator variable. The relationship between motor competence and physical fitness was moderate to large (r = .43, p < .001) after controlling for multiple effects, including dependent samples and small sample sizes in the quantitative synthesis. Additionally, age was a small significant positive moderator of the effect size. Conclusions and implicationsThe findings provide support for a moderate to large positive relationship between motor competence and physical fitness that strengthens with increasing age. However, the results also indicate that there may be an overlap in content between motor competence and physical fitness assessments, which warrants further investigation. Further research is needed that assesses the similarities and differences also in terms of the construct structures.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Sports medicine
Adolescent
RJ101
Physical fitness
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
RA773
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Child Development
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Early childhood
Child
Competence (human resources)
Exercise
Motor skill
business.industry
Cardiorespiratory fitness
030229 sport sciences
Moderation
Motor Skills
Physical Fitness
Meta-analysis
Child, Preschool
Psychology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08952779 and 01121642
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....002cdd0c0023e0fc3aa87f46d62af646