The Relationship Between Motor Perceived Competence And Actual Motor Competence Of Children Aged 6-10 Years

Based on foreign research results,this study introduces Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children(PSPC),which has been revised combined with China’s cultural background,and has formed a Chinese version of children scale to accommodate China’s cultural background.It can help school-age children understand their perceived motor competence,so as to comprehensively understand the relationship between perceived motor competence and actual motor ability of children aged from 6 to 10.This study can provide a professional measurement to measure children’s perceived motor competence and understand the characteristics of perceived motor competence of China’s children,thus formulating the corresponding physical activity plans to improve children’s actual motor ability.Methods: The Chinese part of the scale has been completed in strict accordance with the revision process of scale,namely “translation and back-translation”.Conducted in two steps,the English PSPC scale is translated and revised.Scale surveys,motor ability measurement and mathematic statistics methods are adopted in test part to explore the relationship between children’s perceived motor competence and actual motor ability.Results: 1.The formation and evaluation of the Chinese version of PSPC:(1)Project analysis: The correlation coefficient between the score of each item and total scores is 0.362 to0.643.(2)Reliability analysis: the reliability of internal consistency is relatively good,total Cronbach’s α coefficient of PSPC is 0.895.Through measurement on 40 children aged from 6 to10 every two weeks,it concludes that the re-measurement reliability of PSPC is 0.969.(3)Validity analysis: Four common factors are obtained through factors analysis.Each item’s factor loading is greater than 0.4,which explains the variance of 51.268%,and each item’s larger factor loading in their dimensions>0.4.2.The research results of relationship between children’s perceived motor competence and actual motor ability is of statistical significance,which shows that perceived motor competence is correlated with the actual motor ability.Controlling movements have a greater influence on perceived motor competence changes than locomotor movements.Conclusions: This study confirms that children’s perceived motor competence are correlated with their actual motor ability.The development of object control skills has a greater impact onchildren’s perceived motor competence.The gross motor skill development is the basic behavioral module of advanced movement and special movement techniques,which potentially affects the development of physical motor competence in the process of change.Lower perceived motor competence may have a higher risk in developing gross motor skills.What’s more,the gross motor skill development and perceived motor competence also vary with difference genders and ages.