Gender Differences in Motor Skill Proficiency From Childhood to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study

• Autores: Lisa M. Barnett, Eric van Beurden, Philip J. Morgan, Lyndon O. Brooks, John R. Beard
• Localización: Research quarterly for exercise and sport, ISSN 0270-1367, Vol. 81, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 162-170
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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 proficiency (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