Fundamental motor skills of kindergarten students (a survey study of the influence of financial condition, playing activity, and nutritional status)

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A. Komaini

2017 IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 180 Issue 1 Conference paper Cited by 11 SDG 4 Quartile

Abstract

Fundamental motor skill is still one problem by Kindergarten at Subdistric of Padang. It was seen from preliminary research data 37.92% of Kindergarten students can't do locomotors movement, non-locomotors and manipulative. Some factors allegedly influence fundamental motor skills were financial condition, playing activity, and nutritional status. The research purpose was to know: a causal relationship between endogenous variable was fundamental motor skills, intervening variable was nutritional status. Two exogenous variables were financial condition and playing activity. The research method was survey method and analysed by path analysis. Population was all Kindergartens at Subdistric of Padang Utara. Samples were 7 Kindergartens that represent each village. The results concluded that: 1) Financial condition positive directly influenced toward motor skills (py1 = 0,22), 2) Playing activities positive directly influenced toward motor skills (py2 = 0,374), 3) Nutritional status positive directly influenced toward motor skills (py3 = 0,161), 4) Financial condition positive directly influenced toward nutritional status (P31 = 0,213), 5) Playing activities positive directly influenced toward nutritional status (P32 = 0,171), 6) Financial condition indirectly influenced toward motor skills (ϵ1=0,752), 7) Playing activities indirectly influenced toward motor skills through nutritional status (ϵ2=0,943). © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Sport Science Faculty, Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia

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