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Kicking, Throwing, Grappling: How Combat Sports Shape Muscular Fitness and Motor Competence in Children. [PDF]
Stamenković S +4 more
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Why Motor Competence Matters: Fundamental Movement Skills and Their Role in Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Czech Children Aged 9-10 Years. [PDF]
Kokstejn J +3 more
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Motor competence, physical activity, and perceived motor competence: A relational systems approach
Being and perceiving oneself as proficient in motor skills seems essential for an active lifestyle; conversely, being active and perceiving oneself as proficient may be associated with greater motor competence. By expanding the causal path view about the relationship between active and healthy developmental system elements, this study tested the ...
Anderson Henry Pereira Feitoza +3 more
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Motor competence denotes an individual’s degree of proficient performance in a broad range of motor skills as well as the underlying mechanisms including quality of movement, motor coordination and motor control (Burton & Miller, 1998; Gabbard, 2008).
Hoeboer, Joris, Vries, Sanne Irene De
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Motor competence has been shown to predict health-related physical fitness (HRPF) components in youth, but there is indeterminate evidence for the reverse path. Even less is known about the specific relationship between motor competence and flexibility.
Daniel das Virgens Chagas +1 more
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Assessment of human movement has a long history with many different terms used to describe movement performance and its development across time. This chapter introduces terminology applied in motor competence assessment literature to provide researchers and practitioners with important contextual information on the purpose of assessment.
Lisa M. Barnett +3 more
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Relationship of Perceived and Actual Motor Competence in Children
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between children's actual and perceived motor competence. 280 children between the ages of 10 and 13 years individually completed the Children's Physical Self-perception Profile which assesses perceptions of sport competence, physical conditioning, strength, body attractiveness, and general ...
Lennart, Raudsepp, Raino, Liblik
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Cross-cultural comparison of motor competence in children from Australia and Belgium [PDF]
Motor competence in childhood is an important determinant of physical activity and physical fitness in later life. However, childhood competence levels in many countries are lower than desired.
Farid Bardid +2 more
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Self-Perceived and Actual Motor Competence in Young British Children [PDF]
Children’s perception of their own motor competence is an important correlate of their actual motor competence. The current study is the first to examine this association in British children and the first to use both product and process measures of ...
Michael J Duncan +2 more
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