Aiming-Catching Skills, Manual Dexterity and Spatial Reasoning in Preschool Children: A Moderated Meditation Model
Aiming-Catching Skills, Manual Dexterity and Spatial Reasoning in Preschool Children: A Moderated Meditation Model
Author(s): Karolina Dworska, Jakub RomaneczkoSubject(s): Experimental Pschology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: cognitive development; motor skills; spatial reasoning; manual dexterity; aiming and catching skills;
Summary/Abstract: In the early years of life, motor skills contribute to the formation of cognitive skills. The aim o the present study (conducted in June 2021) was to determine mutual relationships between motor variables: aiming-catching as well as manual dexterity, and the cognitive variable of spatial reasoning. It was assumed that manual dexterity played a mediating role in the relationship between agility skills and spatial reasoning. A second aim of study was to test the assumption that age played a moderating role in the relationship between manual dexterity and spatial reasoning. The participants were Polish preschool children (N = 83), including 42 boys (100% white race of children from Eastern Poland). The results indicated that manual dexterity mediated the relationship between aiming-catching skills and spatial reasoning. Age as an important moderator of the relationship between manual dexterity and spatial reasoning.
Journal: Psychologia Rozwojowa
- Issue Year: 27/2022
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 57-69
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English