The relation between cognitive and motor performance and their relevance for children’s transition to school: A latent variable approach

Roebers, Claudia M.; Röthlisberger, Marianne; Neuenschwander, Regula; Cimeli, Patrizia; Michel, Eva; Jäger, Katja (2014). The relation between cognitive and motor performance and their relevance for children’s transition to school: A latent variable approach. Human movement science, 33, pp. 284-297. Elsevier 10.1016/j.humov.2013.08.011

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Both theoretically and empirically there is a continuous interest in understanding the specific relation between cognitive and motor development in childhood. In the present longitudinal study including three measurement points, this relation was targeted. At the beginning of the study, the participating children were 5-6-year-olds. By assessing participants' fine motor skills, their executive functioning, and their non-verbal intelligence, their cross-sectional and cross-lagged interrelations were examined. Additionally, performance in these three areas was used to predict early school achievement (in terms of mathematics, reading, and spelling) at the end of participants' first grade. Correlational analyses and structural equation modeling revealed that fine motor skills, non-verbal intelligence and executive functioning were significantly interrelated. Both fine motor skills and intelligence had significant links to later school achievement. However, when executive functioning was additionally included into the prediction of early academic achievement, fine motor skills and non-verbal intelligence were no longer significantly associated with later school performance suggesting that executive functioning plays an important role for the motor-cognitive performance link.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology
10 Strategic Research Centers > Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory (CCLM)

UniBE Contributor:

Roebers, Claudia, Röthlisberger, Marianne, Cimeli, Patrizia, Jäger, Katja

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology

ISSN:

0167-9457

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anna Maria Ruprecht Künzli

Date Deposited:

01 Dec 2014 15:42

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.humov.2013.08.011

PubMed ID:

24289983

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.60207

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/60207

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