TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying childhood movement profiles and comparing differences in mathematical skills between clusters
T2 - A latent profile analysis
AU - Jaakkola, Timo
AU - Hakkarainen, Airi
AU - Gråsten, Arto
AU - Sipinen, Elina
AU - Vanhala, Anssi
AU - Huhtiniemi, Mikko
AU - Laine, Anu
AU - Salin, Kasper
AU - Aunio, Pirjo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The aims of this study were; 1) to identify different movement profiles in sixth graders, and 2) to investigate if there are differences in their mathematical basic (BasicMath) and problem solving (ProbSol) skills between existing movement profiles. The sample included 461 (223 girls, 238 boys) students with a mean age of 11.27 ± .32 years from southern and middle Finland. A latent profile analysis (LPA) revealed four movement profiles: “poor movers”, “average movers”, “skilled movers” and “expert movers”. These profiles differed substantially in their motor competence (MC) and health-related fitness (HRF). A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) also revealed that “poor movers” and “average movers” obtained lower results in BasicMath comparing with “skilled movers”. The results of this study suggest that cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, MC and BasicMath are interrelated.
AB - The aims of this study were; 1) to identify different movement profiles in sixth graders, and 2) to investigate if there are differences in their mathematical basic (BasicMath) and problem solving (ProbSol) skills between existing movement profiles. The sample included 461 (223 girls, 238 boys) students with a mean age of 11.27 ± .32 years from southern and middle Finland. A latent profile analysis (LPA) revealed four movement profiles: “poor movers”, “average movers”, “skilled movers” and “expert movers”. These profiles differed substantially in their motor competence (MC) and health-related fitness (HRF). A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) also revealed that “poor movers” and “average movers” obtained lower results in BasicMath comparing with “skilled movers”. The results of this study suggest that cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, MC and BasicMath are interrelated.
KW - basic mathematical skills
KW - cardiorespiratory fitness
KW - mathematical problem-solving skills
KW - Motor competence
KW - muscular fitness
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U2 - 10.1080/02640414.2021.1949114
DO - 10.1080/02640414.2021.1949114
M3 - Article
C2 - 34219620
AN - SCOPUS:85109366385
SN - 0264-0414
VL - 39
SP - 2503
EP - 2508
JO - Journal of Sports Sciences
JF - Journal of Sports Sciences
IS - 21
ER -