Construct validity of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition Test in Preschool Children with Respect to Age and Gender

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00012/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Pediatrics&id=328562" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00012/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Pediatrics&id=328562</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00012" target="_blank" >10.3389/fped.2018.00012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Construct validity of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition Test in Preschool Children with Respect to Age and Gender

Original language description

Background: The Movement Assessment Battery for Children-second edition (MABC-2) Age Band 1 is widely used to identify preschoolers with motor difficulties. Despite unsatisfactory construct validity of the original three-factor model MABC-2 (manual dexterity, aiming and catching, and balance), previous research has not considered possible age and gender differences throughout the entire preschool period. Aim: The aim of this study was to verify the construct validity of the MABC-2 Age Band 1 in a population of Czech preschoolers with respect to age and gender. Methods: Using data from 510 Czech preschoolers (3 to 6 years; 4.9+-1.1 years), confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were used for each age category and gender. Results: The goodness-of-fit indices of CFA supported the original three-factor model of the MABC-2 only in 3- and 4-year-old children, and in boys (3 to 6 years). Low factor loadings and ceiling effects of several test items (Drawing Trail, Walking Heels Raised, and Jumping on Mats) seem to be a probable cause of weak fit indices in 5- and 6-year-old children and in girls (3 to 6 years). Conclusions: These results suggest that the MABC-2 can be a valid tool for assessing motor development and identifying motor difficulties among 3- to 4-year-olds, and generally fits better for preschool boys in the Czech Republic. However, in 5- to 6-year-olds, ceiling effects and a low power of discrimination was found for the Drawing Trail, Walking Heels Raised, and Jumping on Mats tests. Therefore, the three-factor model is not appropriate for all preschoolers, and separate norms should be established for each age and gender.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP14-29358P" target="_blank" >GP14-29358P: Cross-cultural MABC-2 validation for motor development assessment and identification of developmental coordination disorder in pre-school children</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Pediatrics

ISSN

2296-2360

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

000423565400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85041961948