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Influences of Psychomotor Behaviors on Learning Swimming Styles in 6–9-Year-Old Children

The aim of this study was to identify the existence of some relationships between certain psychomotor behaviors, which we consider specific to swimming, and learning to execute the technique of some swimming styles (front crawl and backstroke). The study was carried out for 10 months and included 76...

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Autores principales: Petrea, Renato-Gabriel, Moraru, Cristina-Elena, Popovici, Ileana-Monica, Știrbu, Ilie-Cătălin, Radu, Liliana-Elisabeta, Chirazi, Marin, Rus, Cristian-Mihail, Oprean, Alexandru, Rusu, Oana
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10453054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37628338
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10081339
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author Petrea, Renato-Gabriel
Moraru, Cristina-Elena
Popovici, Ileana-Monica
Știrbu, Ilie-Cătălin
Radu, Liliana-Elisabeta
Chirazi, Marin
Rus, Cristian-Mihail
Oprean, Alexandru
Rusu, Oana
author_facet Petrea, Renato-Gabriel
Moraru, Cristina-Elena
Popovici, Ileana-Monica
Știrbu, Ilie-Cătălin
Radu, Liliana-Elisabeta
Chirazi, Marin
Rus, Cristian-Mihail
Oprean, Alexandru
Rusu, Oana
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description The aim of this study was to identify the existence of some relationships between certain psychomotor behaviors, which we consider specific to swimming, and learning to execute the technique of some swimming styles (front crawl and backstroke). The study was carried out for 10 months and included 76 children (40 boys and 36 girls) aged between 6 and 9 years who practice recreational swimming in a city in Romania. Several tools were used: the Tapping test for manual dexterity, the Goodenough test for body schema, the Flamingo test for static balance, and the horizontal buoyancy test for body balance on the water. The results indicated better ratings on all psychomotor behaviors analyzed according to gender (in favor of girls compared to boys). The levels of all analyzed psychomotor behaviors have a direct relationship to the subjects’ age. Also, we identified moderate positive correlations for manual dexterity (rs = 0.63 in the front crawl style; rs = 0.57 in the backstroke style) and strong correlations for body schema, static balance and buoyancy, coordination with the learning of the two swimming styles (r or rs between 0.77 and 0.85). In conclusion, psychomotor behaviors can be predictors for learning swimming styles.
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spelling pubmed-104530542023-08-26 Influences of Psychomotor Behaviors on Learning Swimming Styles in 6–9-Year-Old Children Petrea, Renato-Gabriel Moraru, Cristina-Elena Popovici, Ileana-Monica Știrbu, Ilie-Cătălin Radu, Liliana-Elisabeta Chirazi, Marin Rus, Cristian-Mihail Oprean, Alexandru Rusu, Oana Children (Basel) Article The aim of this study was to identify the existence of some relationships between certain psychomotor behaviors, which we consider specific to swimming, and learning to execute the technique of some swimming styles (front crawl and backstroke). The study was carried out for 10 months and included 76 children (40 boys and 36 girls) aged between 6 and 9 years who practice recreational swimming in a city in Romania. Several tools were used: the Tapping test for manual dexterity, the Goodenough test for body schema, the Flamingo test for static balance, and the horizontal buoyancy test for body balance on the water. The results indicated better ratings on all psychomotor behaviors analyzed according to gender (in favor of girls compared to boys). The levels of all analyzed psychomotor behaviors have a direct relationship to the subjects’ age. Also, we identified moderate positive correlations for manual dexterity (rs = 0.63 in the front crawl style; rs = 0.57 in the backstroke style) and strong correlations for body schema, static balance and buoyancy, coordination with the learning of the two swimming styles (r or rs between 0.77 and 0.85). In conclusion, psychomotor behaviors can be predictors for learning swimming styles. MDPI 2023-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10453054/ /pubmed/37628338 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10081339 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Moraru, Cristina-Elena
Popovici, Ileana-Monica
Știrbu, Ilie-Cătălin
Radu, Liliana-Elisabeta
Chirazi, Marin
Rus, Cristian-Mihail
Oprean, Alexandru
Rusu, Oana
Influences of Psychomotor Behaviors on Learning Swimming Styles in 6–9-Year-Old Children
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title_short Influences of Psychomotor Behaviors on Learning Swimming Styles in 6–9-Year-Old Children
title_sort influences of psychomotor behaviors on learning swimming styles in 6–9-year-old children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10453054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37628338
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10081339
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