Construct validity of the resistance training skills battery in children aged 7-10 years
| Autor: | Emma L. J. Eyre, Joshua Hurst, Victoria M. Jones, Chelsey Lawson, Jason Tallis, Michael J. Duncan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Battery (electricity) medicine.medical_specialty education Physical fitness Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation behavioral disciplines and activities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Muscle Strength Sexual Maturation Child Motor skill business.industry Resistance training Reproducibility of Results Construct validity Resistance Training 030229 sport sciences humanities Motor Skills Physical Fitness Muscle strength Female business Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sports Sciences. 36:1979-1984 |
| ISSN: | 1466-447X 0264-0414 |
| Popis: | The current study sought to examine the construct validity of the Resistance Training Skills Battery for Children (RTSBc), a movement screen purported to assess resistance training skill in children. Children aged 7-10 years (n = 27, 21 males, 6 females) undertook measures of resistance training skill via the RTSBc, motor competence and muscular fitness. Using a median split for RTSBc scores, children were categorised as high or low resistance training competence. Univariate ANCOVAs, controlling for maturation, were used to examine whether measures of muscular fitness and motor competence scores differed as a function of RTSBc competence. Children who were classified as high for resistance training competence had significantly better motor competence (P = .001) and significantly faster 10 m sprint speed (P = .001). However, medicine ball throw and standing long jump scores as well as peak and average isokinetic muscle strength did not differ as a function of RTSBc (P 0.05). In all cases maturation was significant as a covariate. This study is the first to demonstrate construct validity of the RTSBc as a measure of general motor competence and sprint speed, but not strength, in children aged 7-10 years. |
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