- Title
- The impact of gymnastics on children's physical self-concept and movement skill development in primary schools
- Creator
- Rudd, James; Barnett, Lisa; Farrow, Damian; Berry, Jason; Borkoles, Erika; Polman, Remco
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/198227
- Identifier
- vital:19021
- Identifier
- ISSN:1091-367X1532-7841
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2016.1273225
- Abstract
- This study evaluated the effectiveness of an 8-week gymnastics curriculum on children's movement competence and their physical self-concept. There were 113 children (46% girls, 49% intervention) with a mean age of 9.4 years (SD = 1.8) that participated. Intervention children underwent 8 weeks of gymnastics and the comparison group continued with their standard curriculum. Age was a significant co-variate, a separate analysis was conducted on the lower (grades 2 and 4) and upper (grade 6) groups. The lower age group showed significant improvement in favor of the gymnastic group in fundamental movement skills. The upper age group showed a significant improvement for the control group in general body coordination and fundamental movement skills. For all grades, the physical self-concept showed a significant main effect in favor of the gymnastics group. The gymnastics intervention was found to be of particular benefit for developing children's movement competence and physical self-concept in younger children.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Measurement in physical education and exercise science Vol. 21, no. 2 (2017), p. 92-100
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Subject
- School children; Foreign countries; Control Groups; Sports; Athletics; Self-perception; Questionnaires; Statistics; Program Evaluation; 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy; 4207 Sports science and exercise
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