Gender differences in motor skill proficiency from childhood to adolescence : a longitudinal study
Barnett, Lisa M., van Beurden, Eric, Morgan, Philip J., Brooks, Lyndon O. and Beard, John R. 2010, Gender differences in motor skill proficiency from childhood to adolescence : a longitudinal study, Research quarterly for exercise and sport, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 162-170.
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Gender differences in motor skill proficiency from childhood to adolescence : a longitudinal study
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 ([r.sup.2] = .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.
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110699 Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified
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