Motor coordination, empathy, and social behaviour in school-aged children
Motor coordination, empathy, and social behaviour in school-aged children
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DOI：
10.1017/s001216220500085x
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发表时间：
2005-07-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Dyck, MJ
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作者：
Cummins, A;Piek, JP;Dyck, MJ
有运动协调问题的儿童被认为有情绪困难和社交能力差。目前的研究调查了运动能力差的儿童是否有情绪识别能力差，以及这些是否与社会行为问题有关。据推测，共情能力的困难可能与发育协调障碍儿童（由美国精神病学协会定义）的视觉空间处理能力差有关。在234名儿童（113名男性，121名女性;平均年龄9岁7个月，[SD 1岁8个月，年龄范围6岁8个月至12岁11个月）的样本中检查了运动协调，情绪识别和社会行为之间的关系。从这个样本中选出两组，每组39名儿童（17名女性，22名男性），一组有运动障碍（平均年龄9岁11个月[SD 2岁]，范围6岁11个月至12岁11个月）和对照组儿童的其他儿童（平均年龄10岁[SD 1岁11个月]，范围6岁11个月至12岁11个月），年龄和性别匹配，使用一组六个情绪识别量表进行比较，这些量表测量了共情能力的言语和感知方面。研究发现，有运动障碍的儿童在识别静态和变化的面部表情的能力上表现更差。即使在控制视觉空间处理的情况下，这种差异仍然存在。当控制情绪识别和视觉空间组织时，儿童的运动能力仍然是社会行为的重要预测因素。
Children with motor coordination problems are known to have emotional difficulties and poor social skills. The current study investigated whether children with poor motor ability have poor emotion recognition skills, and whether these could be linked to problems in social behaviour. It was hypothesized that difficulties in empathic ability might be related to the poor visuo-spatial processing ability identified in children with developmental coordination disorder (as defined by the American Psychiatric Association). The relationship between motor coordination, emotion recognition, and social behaviour was examined in a sample of 234 children (113 males, 121 females; mean age 9y 7mo, [SD 1y 8mol age range 6y 8mo to 12y 11mo). From this sample two groups of 39 children each (17 females, 22 males), one group with motor difficulties (mean age 9y 11mo [SD 2y], range 6y 11mo to 12y 11mo) and the other of control children (mean age 10y [SD 1y 11mo], range 6y 11mo to 12y 11mo), matched for age and sex, were compared using a set of six emotion recognition scales that measured both verbal and perceptual aspects of empathic ability. Children with motor difficulties were found to perform more poorly on scales measuring the ability to recognize static and changing facial expressions of emotion. This difference remained even when visuo-spatial processing was controlled. When controlling for emotion recognition and visuo-spatial organization, a child's motor ability remained a significant predictor of social behaviour.