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Direct linkMaria Kasanen; Arto Laukkanen; Donna Niemistö; Asko Tolvanen; Francisco Ortega; Arja Sääkslahti – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
The worldwide increase in childhood overweight and obesity underscores the need to study variables like fundamental movement skill (FMS) levels from early childhood. This study investigated the bidirectional longitudinal relationship between body mass index (BMI) and process-oriented FMSs, including locomotor skills and object control skills in…
Descriptors: Time, Body Composition, Psychomotor Skills, Children
Rebecca Peretz-Lange; Keri Carvalho; Paul Muentener – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
Striking weight biases emerge early in development, yet cognitive-developmental research has largely ignored weight as a social characteristic of interest. How do children conceive of weight? In particular, do children hold essentialist views of weight (i.e. do they view weight as natural, stable, inductively meaningful, and reflective of people's…
Descriptors: Museums, Children, Body Weight, Self Concept
Atike Yilmaz; Fatih Mirze – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Introduction: This article reports the physical abilities and physical wellness of three groups of children with different neurodevelopmental disabilities--Autism, Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disability. Methods: The causal-comparative research method was implemented in this study. The participants comprised 32 students with moderate…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Psychomotor Skills, Wellness, Children
Huaijin Xu; Weimo Zhu; Xiong Qin; Zezhao Chen; Xiaotian Gao – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Using the 2017-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (weighted population size = 35,460,209; 8-18 years old; 52.1% males), we compared the obesity prevalence in children and adolescents between body mass index-based (BMI-based) and total percent body fat-based (BF%-based, measured by the dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) cutoffs.…
Descriptors: Obesity, Child Health, Incidence, Body Composition
Xiaoxia Zhang; Xiangli Gu; Tsz Lun Chu; Joonyoung Lee; Tao Zhang – Elementary School Journal, 2024
This study was to evaluate weight status and sociodemographic disparities in physical activity (PA) intensities (i.e., vigorous PA [VPA], moderate PA [MPA], and light PA [LPA]) during different segments of the school day, including physical education (PE), recess, and lunchtime. Participants were 287 third-grade students (Mage = 8.38, SD = 0.50).…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, School Schedules, Time Factors (Learning)
G. C. Nobre; F. S. S. Nobre; N. C. Valentini – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: Children living in poverty often are exposed to situations that negatively affect various aspects of their development. So, it is important to propose interventional programs that minimize the negative effects of living in poverty on these children. Objective: To verify the impact of a mastery climate cognitive-motor skills…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Students, Intervention, Psychomotor Skills
