Associations between Actual and Perceived Motor Competence and physical fitness in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder.

Hunen, M.S. van (2010) Associations between Actual and Perceived Motor Competence and physical fitness in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.

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Abstract

Objective: To examine the differences in Actual Motor Competence (AMC) and Perceived Motor Competence (PMC) between children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Typically Developing (TD) children and to investigate whether Actual Motor Competence or Perceived Motor Competence is the best predictor for physical fitness in children with DCD. Design: a cross sectional multi centre case control study in which a motor test and a perceived motor test and a physical fitness test were taken. Setting: Three rehabilitation centre's and 4 primary schools. Participants: Children with DCD (N=40) according to all criteria of the DSM-IV between 7 and 12 years of age, who were treated at the rehabilitation centre for less than 2 months, and the same number of typically developing children matched for gender, age and grade. Method: The tests used were Leger 20m shuttle run test (estimated V02max, physical fitness), the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (AMC) and the CBSK (perceived competence) and CBSK-M (PMC). Results: The TD children had a significantly better V02max and Actual Motor Competence. There was no significant difference between the DCD and TD groups for PMC. Global self worth was significantly higher for the DCD group compared to the TD group. After regression analysis with physical fitness as outcome measure it appeared that, including age and balance in the analysis resulted in the best predicting model (R"2=.456). PMC was no significant predictor. Conclusions: It appeared that balance and age are together the best predictors for physical fitness. Balance is a subscale of the MABC as a measure of AMC, so it seems that AMC has more influence on physical fitness than PMC.

Item Type:	Thesis (Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Reinders-Messelink, Dr H.A. and Schoemaker, Dr. M.M.
Faculty:	Medical Sciences
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2020 11:00
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2020 11:00
URI:	https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2009

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