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Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness
The purpose of this study was twofold: First, to examine the correlation between adolescents’ performance on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children -2 (MABC-2) and the Test of Motor Competence (TMC), and second, to interpret the correlation between performance on physical fitness measures and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31330808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports7070176 |
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author | Gísladóttir, Thórdís Haga, Monika Sigmundsson, Hermundur |
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description | The purpose of this study was twofold: First, to examine the correlation between adolescents’ performance on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children -2 (MABC-2) and the Test of Motor Competence (TMC), and second, to interpret the correlation between performance on physical fitness measures and motor competence. This study had a cross-sectional design, in which 101 adolescents age 15–16 years were recruited. The participants were assessed with the MABC-2 (eight tasks), the TMC (four tasks) and physical fitness measures (four tasks). Ninety-four participants completed all the test items (51% male). The correlation between the standard score of the MABC-2 and TMC total score was found to be moderate (r = −0.418). A weak correlation was found between MABC-2 and total score of physical fitness (r = 0.278), while the correlation between TMC and physical fitness was a little stronger (r = 0.361). However, when removing one measure from the TMC (the walking/running in slopes), the correlation was weak and not significant (r = 0.109). The results suggest that different test batteries can cause discrepancy in the results regarding correlation between motor competence and physical fitness in adolescents. |
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spelling | pubmed-66812832019-08-09 Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness Gísladóttir, Thórdís Haga, Monika Sigmundsson, Hermundur Sports (Basel) Article The purpose of this study was twofold: First, to examine the correlation between adolescents’ performance on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children -2 (MABC-2) and the Test of Motor Competence (TMC), and second, to interpret the correlation between performance on physical fitness measures and motor competence. This study had a cross-sectional design, in which 101 adolescents age 15–16 years were recruited. The participants were assessed with the MABC-2 (eight tasks), the TMC (four tasks) and physical fitness measures (four tasks). Ninety-four participants completed all the test items (51% male). The correlation between the standard score of the MABC-2 and TMC total score was found to be moderate (r = −0.418). A weak correlation was found between MABC-2 and total score of physical fitness (r = 0.278), while the correlation between TMC and physical fitness was a little stronger (r = 0.361). However, when removing one measure from the TMC (the walking/running in slopes), the correlation was weak and not significant (r = 0.109). The results suggest that different test batteries can cause discrepancy in the results regarding correlation between motor competence and physical fitness in adolescents. MDPI 2019-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6681283/ /pubmed/31330808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports7070176 Text en © 2019 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gísladóttir, Thórdís Haga, Monika Sigmundsson, Hermundur Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness |
title | Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness |
title_full | Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness |
title_fullStr | Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness |
title_full_unstemmed | Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness |
title_short | Motor Competence in Adolescents: Exploring Association with Physical Fitness |
title_sort | motor competence in adolescents: exploring association with physical fitness |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31330808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports7070176 |
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