Citation

Barnett LM, van Beurden E, Morgan PJ, Brooks LO, Beard JR. Res. Q. Exerc. Sport 2010; 81(2): 162-170.

Affiliation

Faculty of Health Medicine Nursing and Behavioral Sciences at Deakin University, School of Health and Social Development, Victoria, Australia. lisa.barnett@deakin.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20527301

Abstract

Students' proficiency in three object control and three locomotor skills were assessed in 2000 (M age = 10.06 years, SD = 0.63) in New South Wales, Australia and in 2006-07 (M age = 16.44 years, SD = 0.64). In 2006-07, 266 students, 138 girls (51.9%) and 128 boys (48.1%), had at least one skill reassessed. Boys were more object control proficient than girls. Childhood object control proficiency significantly predicted (p = .001) adolescent object control proficiency (r2 = .39), and, while gender was significant (p = .001), it did not affect the relationship between these variables (p = .53). Because childhood object control proficiency is predictive of subsequent object control proficiency, developing skills in childhood is important.

Language: en