Clarice Martins, Elizabeth K Webster, Vicente Romo-Perez, Michael Duncan, Luís Filipe Lemos, Amanda Staiano, Anthony Okely, Daniele Magistro, Fabio Carlevaro, Farid Bardid, Francesca Magno, Glauber Nobre, Isaac Estevan, Jorge Mota, Ke Ning, Leah E Robinson, Matthieu Lenoir, Minghui Quan, Nadia Valentini, Parvaneh S Dehkordi, Penny Cross, Rachel Jones, Rafael S Henrique, Sedigheh Salami, Sitong Chen, Yucui Diao, Paulo R Bandeira, Lisa M Barnett
There is some, albeit inconsistent, evidence supporting sex differences in preschoolers' motor competence (MC), with these observations not uniform when analyzed by age, and cultural groups. Thus, this study examined sex differences across ages in 3- to 5-year-old children's MC. A cross-country pooled sample of 6241 children aged 3-5 years (49.6% girls) was assessed for MC using the Test of Gross Motor Development-2nd/3rd edition, and children were categorized into groups of age in months. Multiple linear regression models and predictive margins were calculated to explore how sex and age in months affect scores of MC (i...
May 2024: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports