Cross-Cultural Aspects: Exploring Motor Competence Among 7- to 8-Year-Old Children From Greece, Italy, and Norway
| Autor: | Dimitra Koutsouki, Guido Francesco Fumagalli, Sophia Charitou, Patrizia Tortella, Monika Haga, Katerina Asonitou, Hermundur Sigmundsson |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Tækni- og verkfræðideild (HR), School of Science and Engineering (RU), Háskólinn í Reykjavík, Reykjavik University |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Motor development
Cultural context Motor skills Börn Sport Science Developmental psychology lcsh:Social Sciences 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine children lcsh:AZ20-999 motor development Cross-cultural Hreyfifærni 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Cross-cultural comparison Competence (human resources) Children Motor skill Hreyfiþroski motor skills cross-cultural comparison General Arts and Humanities fungi 05 social sciences food and beverages General Social Sciences 030229 sport sciences lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities Cross-cultural studies motor skills motor development cross-cultural comparison children lcsh:H Íþróttafræði Þvermenningarlegur samanburður Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Sage Open SAGE Open, Vol 8 (2018) |
| Popis: | Motor development is affected by maturation and growth but also influenced by the specific environmental and cultural context. Therefore, cross-cultural research can provide information about how different cultural contexts, lifestyles, and physical activity contexts can influence the process of developing motor competence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate aspects of motor competence among children from different cultural backgrounds. The sample of 463 children from 6 to 8 years consisting of 132 Greek children (52.3 % boys), 126 Italian children (53.9 % boys), and 205 Norwegian children (52.7) completed the Test of Motor Competence (TMC) including two fine motor tasks-Placing Bricks-and Building Bricks and two gross motor tasks-Heel to Toe Walking and Walking/Running in Slopes. The results indicate that the Norwegian children performed better in all tests; the differences were statistically significant in all four tasks compared with Italian children and in two tasks compared with the Greek children (Building Bricks and Heel to Toe Walking). Greek children performed significantly better than the Italians in two tasks: Placing Bricks and Heel to Toe Walking. Italian children were significantly faster than the Greek ones in one task: Walking/Running in Slopes. The differences in terms of levels of basic fine and gross motor skills between children from the different countries may be a consequence of both different physical activity contexts and cultural policies, attitudes, and habits toward movement. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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