Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2022 Nov;223:105492. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105492. Epub 2022 Jun 29.
Motor skills are an important aspect of development during infancy and have been found to predict development in other domains. Therefore, fast and reliable assessments of infant motor skills are needed. The current study revisited a time and cost-effective parent-report measure of infants' motor skills-the Early Motor Questionnaire (EMQ)-and aimed to improve the utility of the EMQ as a tool to examine variability, stability, and individual differences in early motor development. A sample of 446 parents of infants provided a total of 775 EMQ responses for analyses. Using this large sample, regression was used to create age-independent scores for global, gross motor, fine motor, and perception-action scores on the EMQ. Age-adjusted scores were then converted to t-scores to facilitate score interpretation for past and future studies using the EMQ. Finally, starting flags for different age groups were created to decrease the time it takes parents to complete the EMQ. Together, these changes to the EMQ will improve the utility and interpretability of the measure. The EMQ is free to use and available in the supplemental materials or via www.onlinebabylab.com/emq.
运动技能是婴儿期发育的一个重要方面，并且已经发现它可以预测其他领域的发育。因此，需要快速可靠地评估婴儿的运动技能。本研究重新审视了一种时间和成本效益高的家长报告婴儿运动技能的方法——早期运动问卷（EMQ）——旨在提高 EMQ 作为一种工具来检查早期运动发育中的可变性、稳定性和个体差异的效用。一个由 446 名婴儿父母组成的样本总共提供了 775 份 EMQ 响应进行分析。利用这个大数据样本，回归被用来为 EMQ 上的整体、大运动、精细运动和感知动作的全球、总体、精细和感知动作得分创建与年龄无关的分数。然后，将年龄调整后的分数转换为 t 分数，以便使用 EMQ 进行过去和未来的研究更容易解释分数。最后，为不同年龄组创建了起始标志，以减少父母完成 EMQ 所需的时间。这些对 EMQ 的更改将提高该测量工具的实用性和可解释性。EMQ 是免费使用的，可在补充材料中或通过 www.onlinebabylab.com/emq 获得。
