Effects of parent-child physical activity intervention on gross motor skills among preschoolers in Shanxi province, China
Gross motor development is fundamental for young children to developing the advanced movement and specific skills. Parents are children’s first teachers who can support their physical and mental growth development. However, physical activity levels in young children are low in China, the efficien...
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| Language: | en |
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2024
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/122485/1/122485.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/122485/ http://ethesis.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18587 |
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| Summary: | Gross motor development is fundamental for young children to developing the
advanced movement and specific skills. Parents are children’s first teachers who can
support their physical and mental growth development. However, physical activity
levels in young children are low in China, the efficient and effective parent-child
physical activity interventions to increase physical activity in young children are
unclear. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the effect of parentchild
physical activity intervention on children’s gross motor skills. A total of 66
children aged five to six and their parents from Changzhi city in China were divided
into two group to participate in the experimental parent-child physical activity
intervention program in this study. Two instruments including Children’s Family
Physical Education Environment Questionnaire and the Test of Gross Motor
Development-2 were used in the pre-test and post-test of experiments. The findings
show that parent-child physical activity intervention program, had a significant effect
on children’s gross motor skills. After parent-child physical activities intervention, parents’ attitude towards children’s physical education had relationship with children’s
gross motor skills intervention. While the relationship between sports materials at
home before and after in treatment group were not found. The findings indicated that
it is necessary for parents to provide opportunities for their children to engage in
physical activity that promote a diversity of motor skills. Parents need to improve their
attitudes of physical education, provide enrich sports materials and company their
child to engage in physical activity in home environment to help their child to improve
gross motor skills in their daily life. |
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