Sports Psychology

Sports Psychology

The Effect of Individual, Grouped, and Collaborative Training and Games on Self-Efficacy and Perceptual Motor Development of Children with Development Coordination Disorder

Articles in Press

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Nazanin Bakhtpoor
Tehran University
10.48308/mbsp.2022.105874.25427
Abstract
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of individual, group and collaborative exercises and games on developmental coordination disorder (DCD), self-efficacy and motor efficiency of children (9-11 year old girls) with DCD.
Methods: A total of 60 female students with DCD were selected and randomly assigned to four equal groups of 15 people. In this study, DCDQ-07, self-efficacy questionnaire for children and adolescents, and the Bruninks-Ozeretsky Test were used for collecting data. Investigation program were done for 8 weeks, including three sessions a week, and each 45-minute session. Data analysis and testing were performed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro-Wilk tests, one-way variance analysis and Duncan's post hoc test. 
Keywords
Developmental Coordination Disorder
Gross motor Skills
Fine motor skills
self
efficiency
Sports Psychology

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 21 January 2026

  • Receive Date 19 October 2020
  • Revise Date 19 August 2021
  • Accept Date 25 September 2021