Fathirezaie Zahra, Matos Sérgio, Khodadadeh Elham, Clemente Filipe Manuel, Badicu Georgian, Silva Ana Filipa, Zamani Sani Seyed Hojjat, Nahravani Samaneh
Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666, Iran.
Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politecnico de Viana do castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun Alvares, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Mar 25;10(4):616. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10040616.
Considering that cognitive and motor dimensions of human beings grow together, and that primary school age is one of the most important stages of children's cognitive and motor development, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between executive functions and gross motor skills in rural children aged 8-10 years. This descriptive and correlational research was conducted with 93 Iranian rural primary school children aged 8 to 10 years. A Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) questionnaire and the Test of Gross Motor Development, second edition (TGMD-2) were used to collect data on executive functions and gross motor skills, respectively. The results showed that most of the correlations between criterion and predictor variables were moderate. In the regression results we observed that among the components of executive functions, inhibition, working memory, planning/organizing, and organization had a significant relationship with gross motor skills, but no relationship was found between other components and motor skills. As a result, it can be said that in predicting cognitive development and specifically mentioned executive functions, gross motor skills are an important and effective factor among rural children and, given the importance of cognitive development and executive functions in childhood, it seems that by helping to develop their gross motor skills, executive functions will also be strengthened. Finally, possible future studies are addressed, which could investigate the effect of different aspects of motor skill classifications on executive functions.
考虑到人类的认知和运动维度是共同发展的，且小学阶段是儿童认知和运动发展的最重要阶段之一，本研究旨在调查8至10岁农村儿童的执行功能与粗大运动技能之间的关系。这项描述性和相关性研究是针对93名8至10岁的伊朗农村小学生进行的。分别使用执行功能行为评定量表（BRIEF）问卷和粗大运动发展测试第二版（TGMD-2）来收集执行功能和粗大运动技能的数据。结果表明，标准变量和预测变量之间的大多数相关性为中等程度。在回归结果中我们观察到，在执行功能的各个组成部分中，抑制、工作记忆、计划/组织和组织与粗大运动技能有显著关系，但未发现其他组成部分与运动技能之间存在关系。因此，可以说在预测认知发展尤其是特定的执行功能方面，粗大运动技能是农村儿童中的一个重要且有效的因素，鉴于认知发展和执行功能在儿童期的重要性，似乎通过帮助发展他们的粗大运动技能，执行功能也将得到加强。最后，探讨了未来可能的研究方向，这些研究可以调查运动技能分类的不同方面对执行功能的影响。
