Do physical fitness and executive function mediate the relationship between physical activity and academic achievement? An examination using structural equation …

A Muntaner-Mas, E Mazzoli, G Abbott, MF Mavilidi… - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
… are recommended for the health-related benefits [2,3]. A bulk of … There is a need to elucidate
how specific executive function … an indirect association between PA and executive function

Associations between fitness, physical activity, and fatness in preschool children with typical and atypical motor coordination

SE Keating, GI Mielke, S King-Dowling… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… of each component of health-related fitness and their relative … Motor skills and motor function
are likely determinants of … no specific recommendations regarding cardiorespiratory fitness. …

Behavioral correlates of muscular fitness in children and adolescents: a systematic review

JJ Smith, N Eather, RG Weaver, N Riley, MW Beets… - Sports Medicine, 2019 - Springer
evidence for associations between MF and physical activity, … of active transport and
health-related fitness in youth, which … or time-specific (eg, after school) physical activity would be of …

Physical fitness and motor competence in Chinese and German Elementary School children in relation to different physical activity settings

A Hohmann, X Yuan, M Schmitt, H Zhang, M Pietzonka… - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
between 18 and 23 percent of the variance in selected PF and … relationships among MC,
perceived MC, health-related PF, … In regard to the association between PA, PF, and mental and …

Chinese preschool children's physical fitness, motor competence, executive functioning, and receptive language, math, and science performance in Kindergarten

Y Chou, BY Hu, A Winsler, H Wu, J Greenburg… - Children and Youth …, 2022 - Elsevier
… the association between motor competence and academic achievement. This indirect link
… As we know, children get the most out of physical activities when they can choose what to …

[HTML][HTML] Health-related physical fitness indicators and clustered cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescents: A longitudinal study

PR da Silva, GC Dos Santos, JM da Silva… - Journal of Exercise …, 2020 - Elsevier
… the association between health-related physical fitness indicators … is associated with motor
competence, which influences the … focus for improving health-related fitness in adolescents. …

Accessing physical activity and health disparities among underserved Hispanic children: The role of actual and perceived motor competence

T Zhang, J Lee, TL Chu, C Chen, X Gu - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… After examining the associations among the variables, we tested … of actual motor competence
and health-related outcomes (ie, … with specific instructions for each object control skill and …

Mediation role of physical fitness and its components on the association between distribution-related fat indicators and adolescents' cognitive performance: exploring …

S Hernández-Jaña, J Sanchez-Martinez… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… global fitness score (GFS) on the association between fatness … height ratio (WHtR; non-specific,
peripheral, and central adiposity … influence of exercise and physical activity and indirectly, …

A causal pathway of physical activity to motor competence in childhood: evidence from a school-based intervention

X Gu, Y Fu, W Chen, PM Tamplain… - Journal of Sports …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… -specific movement experiences promotes motor competence… that the significant indirect
effect of motor competence on PA … and explores the mediators of this association. Guided by this …

Associations between body composition and fundamental motor skill competency in children

EK Webster, I Sur, A Stevens, LE Robinson - BMC pediatrics, 2021 - Springer
indirectly, that may provide a more accurate picture in understanding the relationship between
body fat and motor competence. … the proper execution of specific motor tasks, which may …