Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Fostering Holistic Development with a Designed Multisport Intervention in Physical Education: A Class-Randomized Cross-Over Trial.
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- The effects of physical activity on social-emotional competence in primary school students: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the dose-response relationship between aerobic exercise and executive function in children.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- The Influence of Motor Competence on Broader Aspects of Health: A Systematic Review of the Longitudinal Associations Between Motor Competence and Cognitive and Social-Emotional Outcomes.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Multi-level meta-analysis of whether fostering creativity during physical activity interventions increases their impact on cognitive and academic outcomes during childhood.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Influence of Sports Activities on Prosocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Long-Term Effects of a Multidisciplinary School-Based Intervention on Children's Healthy Habits: A 1-Year Follow-Up.Nutrients · 2026Trial
- Understanding the acute and chronic effects of basketball dual-task complexity on athletes' inhibitory capacity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Physical exercise promotes prosocial behavior in college students through a chain mediation of peer relationships and positive empathy.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Multisport-Integrated Training for Rugby Instructors: Success and Effects on Minirugby Players.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Holistic Functioning from a Developmental Perspective: A New Synthesis with a Focus on a Multi-tiered System Support Structure.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Article
- Defining Life Skills in health promotion at school: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Physical education (PE) is acknowledged as a relevant context for holistic child and youth development promotion. However, interventional research mostly builds on individual theories focused on specific outcome domains. This study presents a multisport enriched PE intervention that capitalizes on the intersection of different theory-based approaches to motor, cognitive and socio-emotional skills development promotion. With a cross-over design, 181 fifth graders, coming from a past class-randomized trial of enriched or traditional PE in their 1st-3rd grade, were stratified (based on their previous PE experience) and class-randomized to multisport enriched PE or control group. They completed pre-post assessments in motor and sport skills, cool (inhibition, working memory) and hot (decision making) executive functions, prosocial (empathy, cooperation) and antisocial (quick-temperedness, disruptiveness) behaviors. Children in the enriched PE group showed advantages in motor and prosocial skills after the intervention, which were linked by a mediation path, and an interactive effect of past and actual PE experience on decision making but no differential effects on other variables. The results suggest that a PE intervention designed with an integrative theory base, although not allowing disentangling the contribution of individual components to its efficacy, may help pursue benefits in motor and non-motor domains relevant to whole-child development.
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