幼児のライフスタイルが運動能力に及ぼす影響

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According to a study conducted by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science, and Technology on the motor ability of school-age children, motor abilitydeclined among all age groups when compared to past research. It is important,however, to consider the current situation not only among school-age children, but inearly childhood as well as a way of understanding the connection between lifestyle andmotor ability. This study tested the motor ability of 5 and 6-year old kindergartenstudents (181 boys, 164 girls), as well as conducted a survey among guardians andteachers regarding the children's lifestyle. The results of a one-way ANOVA analysisof the survey of guardians which treated motor ability as a dependent variablesuggested a meaningful association among a portion of the male sample, but nocorrelation among the female sample and as a whole did not conclusively indicatelifestyle's influence on motor ability. However, the survey of teachers regardingchildren's lifestyle did reveal significant inter-group differences, especially among boys,and indicated a connection between lifestyle and motor ability. This suggests the needfor further research on the lifestyle of pre-school age children as a part of currentefforts to formulate government policy for the improvement of motor ability amongelementary and middle school students.
琉球大学教育学部附属教育実践総合センターの論文