Kinesiology, Vol. 27 No. 1, 1995.
Original scientific paper
Structure of endurance abilities of running in childhood
Hana Dvorakova
; Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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
Publication date:
11.3.1995.
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