TY  - JOUR
A1  - Herrmann, Christian
A1  - Heim, Christopher
A1  - Seelig, Harald
T1  - Construct and correlates of basic motor competencies in primary school-aged children
T2  - Journal of sport and health science
N2  - Background: A central aim of physical education is the promotion of basic motor competencies (in German: Motorische Basiskompetenzen; MOBAK), which are prerequisites for children's active participation in sports culture. This article introduces the MOBAK-1 test instrument for 6- to 8-year-old children and determines the construct validity of this test instrument. In addition, the relationship between MOBAK and motor ability (i.e., strength) as well as body mass index (BMI), sex, and age is investigated.
Methods: We analyzed data of 923 first and second graders (422 girls, 501 boys, age = 6.80 ± 0.44 years). The children's basic motor competencies were assessed by the MOBAK-1 test instrument. Besides analyses of frequency, correlation, and variance, 3 confirmatory factor analyses with covariates were performed.
Results: We found 2 MOBAK factors consisting of 4 items each. The first factor, locomotion, included the items balancing, rolling, jumping, and side stepping; the second factor, object control, included the items throwing, catching, bouncing, and dribbling. The motor ability strength had a significant influence on the factors locomotion (β = 0.60) and object control (β = 0.50). Older pupils achieved better results than younger pupils on object control (β = 0.29). Boys performed better on object control (β = −0.44), whereas girls achieved better results in locomotion (β = 0.07). Pupils with a high BMI achieved lower performance only on the factor locomotion (β = −0.28).
Conclusion: The MOBAK-1 test instrument developed for this study meets psychometric validity demands and is suitable to evaluate effects of sports and physical education.
KW  - BMI
KW  - Factorial validity
KW  - Gross motor skills
KW  - Locomotion
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Object control
KW  - Physical education
KW  - Strength
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49081
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-490814
SN  - 2213-2961
SN  - 2095-2546
N1  - © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Shanghai University of Sport. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SP  - 63
EP  - 70
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam [u. a.]
ER  -