Dun, E.L. van (Esmee) (2017) Skill-related and health-related physical fitness of children, aged 8-10 years, in the northern Netherlands. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Introduction: Physical fitness is a multi-dimensional construct that includes skill-related and health-related components, though these are often studied independently. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of age and gender on the skill-related and health-related physical fitness in children aged 8-10 years. The research questions are; 1) what are the ageeffects on the performance of the different components of skill-related and health-related physical fitness? 2) are these possible age-effects the same for boys and girls? Method: 327 children were included in the analysis (boys n=162, girls n=165; mean age=9.24, SD=0.61), the children were divided in three age-groups, 8-year-old, 9-year-old and 10-year-old. In this study, three components of skill-related physical fitness; balance, locomotor- and objectcontrol skills, and two components of health-related physical fitness; cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and body weight status, were measured. Balance was measured with the backward balancing of the KörperkoordinationsTest für Kinder (KTK), the locomotor skills with the subtest jumping sideways (jump) and moving sideways (move) of the KTK and the objectcontrol skills with the subtest upper-limb coordination of the Bruininks-Oseretsky test of motor proficiency, second edition (BOT-2). CRF was measured with the 20-meter shuttle run test (20-m SRT) and body weight status with the body mass index (BMI). Results: For the skill-related physical fitness, an age-related increase between 8 and 9 years was found for the locomotor skills (jump: F(2,321)=8.81, p<.001; move: F(2,321)=6.63, p=.002), object-control skills (F(2,321)=12.41, p < .001), and balance ((F(2,159)=4.570, p=.012)), except balance for girls because their score was already high. For the object-control skills the boys (M=31.56, SD=4.91) had a better performance than girls (M=29.82, SD=5.40; (F(1,321)=5.90, p=.016). For the health-related physical fitness no age-related increase was found for the 20-m SRT and the BMI of boys, an age-related increase was found for BMI of girls between the 8-yearold (M=16.26, SD=2.34) and 10-year-old (M=18.78, SD=3.50; F(2,162)=6.518, p=.002). The boys (M=5.00, SD=1.92) had a better 20-m SRT performance than girls (M=3.94, SD=1.56; F(1,321)=29.93, p<.001). Conclusion: There are age and gender effects for skill-related and health-related physical fitness, but these effects differs between the different components, and between the skill-related and health-related physical fitness. Keywords: Balance, Locomotor skills, Object-control skills, Cardiorespiratory fitness, Body weight status
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Fels, I.M.J. van der and Smith, dr. J. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2022 10:07 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 10:07 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3230 |
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