PMID- 34291018
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210723
IS  - 2296-2360 (Print)
IS  - 2296-2360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2296-2360 (Linking)
VI  - 9
DP  - 2021
TI  - Extracurricular Physical Activities and the Condition of Being an Only Child as a 
      Conditioning Factor in the Psychomotor Development of 5-Year-Old Children.
PG  - 684418
LID - 10.3389/fped.2021.684418 [doi]
LID - 684418
AB  - In early childhood education, there is a great interdependence among motor, 
      affective, and cognitive development. A better understanding of psychomotor 
      development and its variables by pediatricians and those who oversee educational 
      tasks at this stage of development, such as teachers, psychologists, counselors, 
      and parents themselves, can influence the design of educational intervention 
      proposals. To that effect, the present study aims to analyze the influence of 
      some family characteristics such as the condition of being an only child or 
      having siblings and whether the child carries out extracurricular activities 
      linked to physical activities and sports. To achieve this objective, a Checklist 
      of Psychomotor Activities (CPA) assessment instrument was used based on the 
      observation of a sample of 694 children aged 5 years who were enrolled in the 
      second cycle of child education in the province of Albacete. The results show 
      that those children who performed extracurricular activities related to physical 
      activities and sports had a greater development of laterality and postural tonic 
      control than those who did not attend this type of activities. At the same time, 
      differences were found in the affective and relational levels and in the 
      perceptual-motor aspects in favor of children who have siblings compared with 
      children who are only children. There is no other research that addresses both 
      issues in the same study, and this is a strength of the present study.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Gil-Madrona, Romero-Martinez and Roz-Faraco.
FAU - Gil-Madrona, Pedro
AU  - Gil-Madrona P
AD  - Department of Didactics on Physical, Artistic and Music Education, Faculty of 
      Education, Albacete, University of Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
FAU - Romero-Martinez, Sonia J
AU  - Romero-Martinez SJ
AD  - Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, 
      National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Roz-Faraco, Carmen C
AU  - Roz-Faraco CC
AD  - Degree in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, Faculty of Education, 
      International University of la Rioja, Madrid, Spain.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210705
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Pediatr
JT  - Frontiers in pediatrics
JID - 101615492
PMC - PMC8287093
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - extracurricular activities
OT  - infant education
OT  - only children
OT  - physical education
OT  - psychomotor development
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/07/23 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/23 06:01
PMCR- 2021/07/05
CRDT- 2021/07/22 06:36
PHST- 2021/03/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/06/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/07/22 06:36 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/07/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/23 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fped.2021.684418 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Pediatr. 2021 Jul 5;9:684418. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.684418. eCollection 
      2021.