The impact of gymnastics on children’s physical self-concept and movement skill development in primary schools Rudd, J.R., Barnett, L.M., Farrow, D., Berry, J., Borkoles, E. and Polman, R. 2017, The impact of gymnastics on children’s physical self-concept and movement skill development in primary schools, Measurement in physical education and exercise science, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 92-100, doi: 10.1080/1091367X.2016.1273225. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The impact of gymnastics on children’s physical self-concept and movement skill development in primary schools Author(s) Rudd, J.R. Barnett, L.M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-625X Farrow, D. Berry, J. Borkoles, E. Polman, R. Journal name Measurement in physical education and exercise science Volume number 21 Issue number 2 Start page 92 End page 100 Total pages 9 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2017-04-03 ISSN 1091-367X 1532-7841 Keyword(s) fundamental movement skills general body coordination intervention physical education Summary This study evaluated the effectiveness of an 8-week gymnastics curriculum on children’s movement competence and their physical self-concept. There were 113 children (46% girls, 49% intervention) with a mean age of 9.4 years (SD = 1.8) that participated. Intervention children underwent 8 weeks of gymnastics and the comparison group continued with their standard curriculum. Age was a significant co-variate, a separate analysis was conducted on the lower (grades 2 and 4) and upper (grade 6) groups. The lower age group showed significant improvement in favor of the gymnastic group in fundamental movement skills. The upper age group showed a significant improvement for the control group in general body coordination and fundamental movement skills. For all grades, the physical self-concept showed a significant main effect in favor of the gymnastics group. The gymnastics intervention was found to be of particular benefit for developing children’s movement competence and physical self-concept in younger children. Language eng DOI 10.1080/1091367X.2016.1273225 Field of Research 110699 Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified 1106 Human Movement And Sports Science 1302 Curriculum And Pedagogy Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2017, Taylor & Francis Group Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30092751 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 03 Apr 2017, 12:57:40 EST Tue, 04 Apr 2017, 05:04:57 EST Tue, 04 Apr 2017, 08:14:29 EST Fri, 21 Apr 2017, 13:52:36 EST Thu, 27 Apr 2017, 12:55:22 EST Thu, 04 May 2017, 06:05:16 EST Fri, 12 May 2017, 09:28:55 EST Fri, 12 May 2017, 09:31:07 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 12 times in TR Web of Science Cited 10 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 577 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 27 Apr 2017, 12:55:22 EST