- Title
- Gender differences in motor skill proficiency from childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal study
- Creator
- Barnett, Lisa M.; van Beurden, Eric; Morgan, Philip J.; Brooks, Lyndon O.; Beard, John R.
- Relation
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Vol. 81, Issue 2, p. 162-170
- Relation
- http://www.aahperd.org/rc/publications/rqes
- Publisher
- American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Students' proficiency in three object control and three locomotor skills were assessed in 2000 (M age = 10.06 years, SD = 0.63) in New South Wales, Australia and in 2006-07 (M age = 16.44 years, SD = 0.64). In 2006-07, 266 students, 138 girls (51. 9%) and 128 boys (48.1 %), had at least one skill reassessed. Boys were more object control proficient than girls. Childhood object control proficiency significantly predicted (p = .001) adolescent object control proficency (r² = .39), and, while gender was significant (p = .001), it did not affect the relationship between these variables (p = .53). Because childhood object control proficiency is predictive of subsequent object control proficiency, developing skills in childhood is important.
- Subject
- gross motor skills; locomotor; object control
- Identifier
- uon:9431
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921898
- Identifier
- ISSN:0270-1367
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