TY - JOUR AU - Rafaello Pinheiro Mazzoccante, AU - Hugo de Luca Corrêa, AU - Ioranny Raquel Castro de Sousa, AU - Matheus Almeida Camarâ, AU - Gabriel de Sousa Alves, AU - Beatriz Raquel Castro de Sousa, AU - Frederico Santos de Santana, AU - Aparecido Pimentel Ferreira, AU - Gislane Ferreira de Melo, PY - 2021/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The influence of sports practice in children aged 6 to 7 years on physical fitness, motor coordination and executive functions. JF - Revista de Psicología del Deporte (Journal of Sport Psychology) JA - J Sports Psychol VL - 29 IS - 4 SE - Original Article DO - UR - https://www.rpd-online.com/index.php/rpd/article/view/239 SP - 175-184 AB - <p class="Abstract"><span lang="ES-TRAD">To compare motor coordination, aerobic fitness, body composition, attention and cognitive flexibility between sports practitioners and non-practitioners children. Participated in the study 68 children aged 6-7 years old, students of a private school. The aerobic fitness was measured using the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test - level 1 (YYIR1) adapted for children. The motor performance was measured by the körperkoordination für kinder (KTK) test, composed of four tasks: balance beam, monopedal jump, transfer on platforms and lateral jumps. Cognitive flexibility and attention were assessed by the attention cancellation test (ACT) (selective attention), trail making test A (sustained attention) and trail making test B (cognitive flexibility), both of which were composed by visual search task. Sports practitioners had higher scores than non-sports practitioners children (p &lt;0.01) in YYIR1 performance (463.9±349.3 vs 221.17±138.5); motor coordination (343.3 ± 38 vs 309 ± 21.3), lower limb thrust force (jump to 90º (18.6 ± 4.6 vs 16.1 ± 4) and jumping countermovement (19.6 ± 4 .5 vs 16.5 ± 4.1); trail making test A (107.9 ± 7.9 vs 99.3 ± 19.6) and cognitive flexibility (116 ± 15.8 vs. 106.7 ± 17.1) variables. It is possible to observe through the results a possible influence of the sports practice concerning the development of aerobic, motor, sustained attention and cognitive flexibility</span></p> ER -