The Importance of Motor Coordination for Children’s Motivational Orientations in Sport

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Rose ◽  
Dawne Larkin ◽  
Bonnie G. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Motor Domain ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Motor Ability ◽  
Motivation Theory ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Competence Motivation ◽  
Neuromuscular Development

According to competence motivation theory, children who are successful at movement will be intrinsically motivated in the motor domain (Harter, 1978, 1981a). By contrast, intrinsic motivation of children who repeatedly fail at movement is likely to diminish. The present study aimed to examine motivational orientations of children (N = 130) who differed in motor ability. Children (age 8-12) were categorized as coordinated (n = 62) or poorly coordinated (n = 68) according to scores on a neuromuscular development battery (McCarron, 1982). The poorly coordinated group was less motivated by challenge than well-coordinated participants as measured on the Motivational Orientation in Sport Scale (Weiss, Bredemeier, & Shewchuk, 1985a). Girls were less intrinsically motivated toward challenge than boys. There was little support that movement competence and motivational orientation are linked.

scholarly journals Relationships between motivation, cognitive styles and perception of teaching practices for creativity

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunice Maria Lima Soriano de ALENCAR ◽  
Denise de Souza FLEITH
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Private University ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

Abstract This study investigates differences between Pedagogy and Teachers' Certificate in Mathematics undergraduates, males and females, from public and private institutions with respect to motivational orientations, cognitive styles and perception of pedagogical practices for creativity implemented by their teachers, as well as relationships between these variables. Three hundred and sixty-five students answered scales regarding motivation to learn, cognitive styles, and teaching practices for creativity. Intrinsic motivation predominated in the private university students and extrinsic motivation in the public university students. The data revealed differences between courses, gender and type of university concerning cognitive styles. Private university and pedagogy students had a more positive perception of professors' teaching practices that promote creativity. Positive relationships were observed between the factors of the instrument of pedagogical practices for creativity, intrinsic motivation and nonconformist transformer style, and between the various cognitive styles and intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientation.

scholarly journals Investigating More Effective and Less Effective EFL Learners’Attitudes and Motivational Orientation

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Yousefi Halvaei ◽  
Ali Akbar Ansarin
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
First Year ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Research Questions

The present study investigated the differences in attitudes and motivation between more effective and less effective learners studying at the first year of graduate university program. Based on this aim, first, the researcher developed the three-part 35-item attitude-motivation questionnaire of the present study based on the AMTB developed by Gardner (1985). Second, he selected 441 students (224 male & 217 female) studying at the first year of their graduate program at universities in East Azarbayjan province (Iran) as the participants of the study. Third, he administered the questionnaire of the study to the selected participants and asked them to complete it. Finally, he analyzed the data of the study in order to answer the mentioned research questions. The chi-square test was utilized to analyze the collected data of the study. The results of the study showed that there were significant differences between more effective and less effective learners’ attitudes and motivation. Based on the results of the study, it was argued that, the EFL syllabus designers and teachers should help the learners to become aware of their attitudes, and motivational orientations. Furthermore, they should make an effort to tailor classroom materials and classroom teaching to the EFL learners’ individual differences.

scholarly journals Visuo-motor integration, vision perception and attention in mTBI patients. Preliminary findings

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250598
Author(s):  
Mariagrazia Benassi ◽  
Davide Frattini ◽  
Sara Garofalo ◽  
Roberto Bolzani ◽  
Tony Pansell
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Motor Deficits ◽  
Motor Ability ◽  
Critical Flicker Fusion ◽  
Visuomotor Coordination ◽  
Form Recognition ◽  
Flicker Fusion

Patients with mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) often report difficulties in motor coordination and visuo-spatial attention. However, the consequences of mTBI on fine motor and visuo-motor coordination are still not well understood. We aimed to evaluate whether mTBI had a concomitant effect on fine motor ability and visuo-motor integration and whether this is related to visual perception and visuo-spatial attention impairments, including patients at different symptoms stage. Eleven mTBI patients (mean age 22.8 years) and ten healthy controls participated in the study. Visuo-motor integration of fine motor abilities and form recognition were measured with the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration test, motion perception was evaluated with motion coherence test, critical flicker fusion was measured with Pocket CFF tester. Visuo-spatial was assessed with the Ruff 2 & 7 Selection Attention Test. mTBI patients showed reduced visuo-motor integration, form recognition, and motor deficits as well as visuo-spatial attention impairment, while motion perception and critical flicker fusion were not impaired. These preliminary findings suggest that the temporary brain insults deriving from mTBI compromise fine motor skills, visuomotor integration, form recognition, and visuo-spatial attention. The impairment in visuo-motor coordination was associated with speed in visuo-attention and correlated with symptoms severity while motor ability was correlated with time since concussion. Given the strong correlation between visuomotor coordination and symptom severity, further investigation with a larger sample seems warranted. Since there appeared to be differences in motor skills with respect to symptom stage, further research is needed to investigate symptom profiles associated with visuomotor coordination and fine motor deficits in mTBI patients.

A Guiding Hand

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
Tasneem Mandviwala
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Low Educated ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

This chapter examines how the intersection of students' race-ethnicity and gender is associated with their motivational orientation toward college. Students' motivational orientations were evident in their reasons for going to college and in their adjustment struggles during the first year. This chapter focuses on how Latinx men's motivational orientations can either align them with or place them at odds with their institutions' dominant cultural orientation. In comparison to Black men, Latinx men were more likely to come from very low-educated and immigrant families. This means that their home life did not include access to a knowledgeable adult who could guide them through the college process, from its very beginning in dealing with applications, school choice, and financial aid, to advice for managing the stress of finals week or support in persistence decisions.

Affective Outcomes in Competitive Youth Sport: The Influence of Intrapersonal and Socialization Factors

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Brustad
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Affective Outcomes ◽  
Parental Pressure ◽  
Competence Motivation

This study was designed to examine potential correlates of positive and negative affect experienced by young athletes during a competitive sport season. An index of both positive affect, season-long enjoyment, and negative affect, competitive trait anxiety (CTA) were included. The study was grounded within Harter's (1978, 1981a) theory of competence motivation. Male and female participants (N=207) in an agency-sponsored youth basketball league completed self-report measures of self-esteem, perceived basketball competence, intrinsic/extrinsic motivational orientation, perceived parental pressure, and frequency of performance and evaluative worries. Team win/loss records and estimates of each player's ability were obtained from the coaches. Multiple regression analyses revealed that for both boys and girls, greater enjoyment was predicted by high intrinsic motivation and low perceived parental pressure. High CTA was predicted for both boys and girls by low self-esteem. These findings are consistent with predictions stemming from competence motivation theory.

scholarly journals Reliability of a New Lower-Extremity Motor Coordination Test

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Antosiak-Cyrak ◽  
Grzegorz Wiczyński ◽  
Karolina Podciechowska ◽  
Elżbieta Rostkowska
Keyword(s):  
Lower Extremity ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Motor Ability ◽  
Testing Apparatus ◽  
Coordination Test ◽  
Manual Counting ◽  
Positive Linear Correlation ◽  
The Right

Abstract Introduction. Motor coordination is a basic motor ability necessary for daily life, which also allows athletes to win a sports rivalry and patients to assess their recovery progress after therapy and rehabilitation. The aim of the present study was to assess the reliability of a new lower-extremity rate of movements test and testing apparatus. Material and methods. The study sample consisted of 92 students aged 19.21 ± 3.55 years, with body height of 171.2 ± 15.11 cm and body mass of 66.01 ± 12.32 kg. The study used a test-retest method. Results. The correlation between the test and the retest was rs = 0.79 (p < 0.001) for the right leg, and rs = 0.78 (p < 0.001) for the left leg. In both cases a positive linear correlation was observed (rs > 0). Conclusions. The results of the study showed that the new rate of movements electronic testing apparatus was highly valid and reliable. Its technical possibilities eliminate errors that might have occurred earlier during manual counting of the performed cycles of movements.

scholarly journals Assessing the Share of Impaired Visual Function, Fine Motor Coordination and Visual-motor Integration in Dyslexic Children with the Eta/Mu Model

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Carlo Aleci ◽  
Francesca Vai
Keyword(s):  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Motor Impairment ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Motor Domain ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Motor Deficits ◽  
First Order ◽  
Visual Motor Integration ◽  
Visual Motor

Aims: A computational model aimed to estimate the proportion of visual/motor deficits (first-order defects) and visual-motor abnormal integration (second-order defect) in dyslexic children is described. Study Design: Single-masked case-control study. Place and Duration of Study: Sample: Service of Neuro-Ophthalmology, University of Turin, between December 2017 and November 2018. Methodology: Twenty subjects (age 8-10) were administered a set of tests that recruit the visual and motor domain in different proportions. The score obtained in each trial is weighed by the correspondent share of visuoperceptive and motor recruitment. This way two indexes are obtained: Eta (h) and Mu (m), that quantify the expected and estimated damage of the two functions across the range of average performance. The difference between the expected and estimated level of damage in the two domains represents the quota of selective visuoperceptive / motor impairment of the subject. In turn, no or negligible difference in the presence of abnormal z-score would reveal impaired visual-motor integration with no evident visual or motor damage. Results: The model detected a prevalent first-order defect in the visuo perceptive or motor domain in 58% of the cases (visuo perceptive alteration: 27%, motor alteration: 73%), and a prevalent second-order defect in the remaining 42% of the subjects. Internal consistency was adequate for research and screening purpose (Cronbach’s coefficient alpha: from 0.77 to 0.84). Conclusion: The Eta/Mu model seems a promising tool to detect cases of visual and motor alteration as well as the level of visual-motor integration in dyslexic children. Further effort is needed to improve test-retest reliability by examining larger samples, so as to make it suitable to customize the rehabilitation program of children suffering from learning disabilities.

scholarly journals A Study of Motivation Orientations Used from High School to University

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-153
Author(s):  
Vali Mehdinezhad
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Target Population ◽  
T Test ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Educational Groups ◽  
Main Components

Learning strategies and motivational orientations are important issues that have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent decades. Thus this research was done with the aim of investigation the use of students’ motivational orientations compared with them high school. The type of research is applied, descriptive. Students of University of Sistan and Baluchestan the number of 19750 was considered as target population and with use of Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size table 375 students were considered as sample. The main components of motivational orientations were measured with using Taylor-Sims (2011) Motivational Strategies Questionnaire (MSQ). Data was examined with using Paired Sample t-test, Friedman test for prioritize the variables, Analysis Variance and Independentsample t-test. The findings indicated that generally students use less motivational orientation than them high school course and this amount wasn’t desirable. The girls more utilized these skills in comparison with boys. Among different educational groups in just a few components was a significant difference. In rate of using of motivational orientations weren't significant differences between educational levels and age.

scholarly journals Role of Libraries in Human Flourishing: Adolescents’ Motivational Orientation for Occupation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11209
Author(s):  
Yusuke Matsuyama ◽  
Takeo Fujiwara
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
City Size ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Japanese Adolescents ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Linear Probability

Introduction: Adolescence is crucial for human flourishing and strongly influences having meaning in life. We investigated the association between local public library density as a shared resource and motivational orientation toward their occupation in Japanese adolescents. Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted using data from a nationwide birth cohort survey in Japan (n = 12,184). At age 7, their caregivers answered questionnaires on children including the number of books read. Library density (low, moderate, or high) in each municipality was obtained from national statistics. At age 15, the adolescents indicated whether they had decided on an occupation and selected motivational orientations from among intrinsic (own ability and interest), extrinsic (high earnings, social class, or job stability), and altruistic (social contribution) orientations. Multilevel linear probability models were fitted, adjusting for confounders, including household socioeconomic status and city size. Results: Intrinsic, extrinsic, and altruistic motivations for desired occupation were reported by 40.7%, 31.9% and 41.8% of participants, respectively. Living in a municipality with a high library density at age 7 was associated with having intrinsic motivation at age 15 than low density by 3.1 percentage points (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.35, 5.85). The association was more prominent for those with lower income (P for interaction = 0.026). Neither extrinsic nor altruistic motivations were associated with library density (coefficient: −0.13; 95% CI: −2.81, 2.56; coefficient: 0.08; 95% CI: −2.72, 2.88 percentage points, respectively). Conclusions: Developing libraries in communities could encourage intrinsic motivation in adolescents, specifically for those in low-income households.

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