Association between Compliance with the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Fundamental Movement Skills in Preschoolers: A Network Perspective

Clarice Maria de Lucena Martins, Cain Craig Truman Clark, Paulo Felipe Ribeiro Bandeira, Jorge Mota and Michael Joseph Duncan
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Clarice Maria de Lucena Martins: Department of Physical Education, Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa-PB 58000-000, Brazil
Cain Craig Truman Clark: School of Health Life Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
Paulo Felipe Ribeiro Bandeira: Department of Physical Education, Universidade Regional do Cariri – URCA, Crato 63105-000, Brazil
Jorge Mota: Centre of Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Porto, 4500 Porto, Portugal
Michael Joseph Duncan: Centre for Applied Biological and Exercise Sciences, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 15, 1-13

Abstract: The present study aimed to analyze the compliance with the 24-h movement guidelines and its association with fundamental motor skills (FMS) in early childhood, considering sex and Body Mass Index (BMI) in a network perspective. Two hundred and twelve preschoolers (109 boys, 4.45 ± 0.78 years old) provided physical activity (PA), sleep duration, screen time, fundamental motor skills (FMS) and BMI data. Relationships between compliance with movement behaviors guidelines, FMS, sex and BMI were calculated using a network analysis. Only two percent of the entire sample complied with the overall 24-h movement behaviors recommendations; while the emerged network in the present study emphasized ball skills as the most critical centrality variable, according to age, reinforcing the importance of ball skills for the engagement and maintenance of PA in children. The present study presents a novel statistical and theoretical perspective that permits hitherto unseen insight into the associations between movement behavior, FMS and their correlates, that appropriately consider the inherent, multifaceted, complexity of these relationships.

Keywords: 24-h movement behaviors; fundamental movement skills; network perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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