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Original scientific paper

Structure of endurance abilities of running in childhood

Hana Dvorakova ; Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic


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Abstract

Endurance abilities to run eleven different distances has been studied in 5,5 - 6,5 year old preschool children. Four groups of factors identified by confirmatory factor analysis have been interpreted as: speed-, short-, intermediate- endurance and endurance to run time-limited tests. However, a general background factor of over-all running ability has been fitted in a second-order simplex factorial structure indicating possible transfer between the first three abilities. The validity of the time-limited tests (6-min, 12 min runs) differ from the distance limited ones in preschool children, hopefully for psychological reasons.

Keywords

preschool age, difference of abilities, validity of running tests

Hrčak ID:

253502

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253502

Publication date:

11.3.1995.

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