Motor abilities and somatic indicators in 12-year old students and their skill of reasoning
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 23, Issue 64
Abstract
Purpose. The importance of physical activity in various aspects of health including cognitive health estimated by students’ academic performance is being emphasized in many publications. Comparatively, the relations between somatic as well as motor components of physical ability and the academic performance, are examined more seldom. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to search for relations between selected components of physical and reasoning ability, as well as to establish whether any intersexual differences may be observed.Basic procedures. In the study, the measurements of basic traits of physical development and the results of selected motor tests performed by 12-year-old students (53 girls, 45 boys) were used. Reasoning ability was estimated on the basis of results obtained by students in the final exam of primary school. To estimate the relations between the considered variables, a linear correlation was employed, and in further proceedings, the best subsets regression procedure.Main findings. The occurrence of intersexual differences in the area of relations between the somatic and motor components of physical ability, and reasoning ability was observed. These interrelations are especially evident in multiple correlation.Conclusions. A higher level of somatic and motor development is conducive to better results of students’ reasoning ability. The somatic and motor components of physical ability, presented as a set of explanatory variables, are dependent on the subject’s sex in approximately 17–37%, and are the source of the variability of the results of reasoning ability.
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Grzegorz Żurek
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