The Relationship Between Perceived Physical Competence and Funamental Motor Skill Performance in Your Children

Download or read book The Relationship Between Perceived Physical Competence and Funamental Motor Skill Performance in Your Children written by Delbert Graves and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived physical competence and actual motor skill performance. Thirty male and female young children with a mean age of 68.72 months from a private religious school for grades pre-kindergarten to fifth grade participated in this study. The Test of Gross Motor Development-2 and the Modified Pictorial Scale of Perceived Physical Competence were administered to each participant. The results indicate that children tend to have inflated self-perceptions of their motor skills as a whole. Total composite scores indicated that children who had an average to above average motor skill performance were more accurate in their self-perceptions. This study may help educators to identify children who are at risk of having inappropriate or negative motivational guides that may direct future behaviors in physical activity.