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Abstract
Introduction: This study explored a structural equation model of preschool children's sports health levels and revealed the coupling effect of many factors on children's sports health levels. Despite the importance of motor health in early childhood, a comprehensive evaluation model integrating multiple health dimensions remains underexplored.
Methods: WPS Office 6.4 and IBM® SPSS® Statistics 26.0 were used to analyze the data, and the statistical significance level was set at p-value < 0.05. IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 24.0 was used to analyze the data and develop a structural equation model for children's motor health.
Results: The total motor health scores of the preschoolers showed highly significant positive correlations (p-value < 0.01) at the 0.01 level (two-tailed) with motor ability, physical health, mental health, social and emotional competence, motor health environment, and motor health behavior. Through the evaluation and verification of the fitness of the whole and multi-group structural equation models, it can be seen that the significance probability values of the preset theoretical model are p-value > 0.05, RMSEA < 0.05, GFI > 0.90, and AGFI > 0.90, which supports the hypothesis of nothingness. NFI > 0.90, IFI > 0.90, TLI > 0.90, and CFI > 0.90. All indices of value-added fitness met the acceptable standards of the model, and the model met the standard of simple adaptation.
Conclusion: A structural equation model of preschool children's motor health was constructed, which passed the fitness test and is stable, adaptable, and widely applicable. These findings can help educators design evidence-based physical activity programs to enhance preschoolers' motor and overall health.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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