Physical Education, Sport and Corona virus pandemic: Understanding consequences of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on children’s and youth physical literacy

《体育教育、体育活动和体育运动国际宪章》将参与有意义的体育活动确定为所有人的优先事项和基本权利。体育素养是一个迅速发展的科学概念，也越来越多地被用于政策。它意味着一个人有动力、自信、身体能力、知识和理解力，在一生中从事有目的的体育活动并承担起责任。对于儿童和青春期，之前的研究已经表明，身体能力对整体学校成绩有积极影响。然而，在疫情大流行期间，实施了各种干预措施，如全面停学、部分停课(即伴随着体育课的取消)以及禁止娱乐和专业运动，这些都可能威胁到儿童和青少年积极的身体和情感认知发展。本项目的目标是研究2020年春季至夏季和2020年秋季至2021年夏季新冠肺炎引发的封锁对德国儿童和青少年身体和情感认知发展(身体素养；身体素养)的影响。特别关注的是社会因素的影响。禁闭期将被用作研究影响的自然实验，特别关注社会因素。PESCov项目包括对儿童和青少年时期身体表现和教育组成部分的现有纵向数据的两次二次分析。以来自柏林的数据集代表一个大都会地区(6,600名三年级学生)的队列设计和以来自德国各地具有代表性的样本(1,700名4-17岁的学生)为数据基础的纵向设计作为数据基础。

The International Charter for Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport identifies participation in meaningful physical activity throughout the life course as a priority and fundamental right for all people. Physical Literacy is a rapidly evolving scientific concept that is also increasingly used in policy. It means that a person has the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge, and understanding to engage in and take responsibility for purposeful physical activity across the life course. For childhood and adolescence, previous research has shown a positive impact of physical competence on overall school success. However, during the pandemic, a variety of interventions, such as full school attendance closure, partly attendance closure in schools (i.e., accompanying cancellation of physical education), and prohibition of recreational and professional sports, were implemented that potentially threaten the positive physical and affective-cognitive development of children and adolescents.The goal of this project is to examine the impact of COVID-19 induced lockdowns in spring to summer 2020 and fall 2020 to summer 2021 on the physical and affective-cognitive development (physical literacy; physical literacy) of children and adolescents in Germany. A particular focus lies on influences of social factors. The lockdown periods will be used as natural experiments to study the effects with a special focus on social factors.The PESCov project consists of two secondary analyses of existing longitudinal data on components of physical performance and education in childhood and adolescence. A cohort design with a dataset from Berlin representing a metropolitan region (> 6,600 third graders) and a longitudinal design with representative samples from all over Germany with the Motor Module Study (1,700 4-17-year-olds) serve as the data basis.