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Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects

Accumulating evidence shows a beneficial association between physical fitness and school children’s academic performance. However, several other studies have failed to demonstrate such an association. We reanalyzed data of a two-year longitudinal study of the association between changes in cardiores...

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Autores principales: Ishihara, Toru, Morita, Noriteru, Nakajima, Toshihiro, Yamatsu, Koji, Okita, Koichi, Sagawa, Masato, Kamijo, Keita
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8016962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33795680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00086-8
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author Ishihara, Toru
Morita, Noriteru
Nakajima, Toshihiro
Yamatsu, Koji
Okita, Koichi
Sagawa, Masato
Kamijo, Keita
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description Accumulating evidence shows a beneficial association between physical fitness and school children’s academic performance. However, several other studies have failed to demonstrate such an association. We reanalyzed data of a two-year longitudinal study of the association between changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and academic performance of school children by focusing on intra-individual variability in grade points as a possible source of this discrepancy. We analyzed data from 469 junior high school students to examine if improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness had a differential effect on an individual student’s worst and best grade points. Results indicated that improvements in physical fitness were associated with an improvement in the worst grade points. On the contrary, we did not observe a similar longitudinal association with the best grade points. These findings suggest that improving cardiorespiratory fitness improves the worst grade points of an individual, selectively. We suggest that intra-individual variability in grade points might moderate the association between physical fitness and academic performance changes.
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spelling pubmed-80169622021-04-16 Differential effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness on worst- and best- school subjects Ishihara, Toru Morita, Noriteru Nakajima, Toshihiro Yamatsu, Koji Okita, Koichi Sagawa, Masato Kamijo, Keita NPJ Sci Learn Article Accumulating evidence shows a beneficial association between physical fitness and school children’s academic performance. However, several other studies have failed to demonstrate such an association. We reanalyzed data of a two-year longitudinal study of the association between changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and academic performance of school children by focusing on intra-individual variability in grade points as a possible source of this discrepancy. We analyzed data from 469 junior high school students to examine if improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness had a differential effect on an individual student’s worst and best grade points. Results indicated that improvements in physical fitness were associated with an improvement in the worst grade points. On the contrary, we did not observe a similar longitudinal association with the best grade points. These findings suggest that improving cardiorespiratory fitness improves the worst grade points of an individual, selectively. We suggest that intra-individual variability in grade points might moderate the association between physical fitness and academic performance changes. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8016962/ /pubmed/33795680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00086-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021, corrected publication 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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