Developmental relationships between motor skills and executive functioning in children with intellectual disabilities

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Human Movement Science Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-21 DOI:10.1016/j.humov.2025.103424

Yaping Wang , Yanchun Liu , Jingjing Xiang , Jia Liu

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Abstract

Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests a link between motor skills and executive functioning, yet the nature of this relation remains relatively unexplored in children with intellectual disabilities. This study focuses on exploring the developmental relationships between motor skills and executive functioning in this population. We utilized a longitudinal approach to follow 101 children with intellectual disabilities, ranging in age from 7 to 17, across three measurement points with one-year intervals. At each measurement point, participants completed tasks evaluating gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and executive functioning. Random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling revealed distinctive motor–executive function relationship patterns. Specifically, fine motor skills and executive functioning reciprocally predicted each other between Time 1 and Time 2. Additionally, fine motor skills at Time 2 significantly predicted executive functioning at Time 3, whereas the reverse pattern was not observed. In contrast, no significant longitudinal relationship was found between gross motor skills and executive functioning. These findings suggest that interventions integrating fine motor skills and executive functioning could be essential for children with intellectual disabilities, providing an important avenue to support their skills development.

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智障儿童运动技能与执行功能的发展关系。

理论和经验证据表明，运动技能和执行功能之间存在联系，但这种关系的本质在智力残疾儿童中仍相对未被探索。本研究的重点是探索运动技能和执行功能之间的发展关系。我们采用纵向方法跟踪101名智力残疾儿童，年龄从7岁到17岁，跨越三个测量点，间隔一年。在每个测量点，参与者完成评估大运动技能、精细运动技能和执行功能的任务。随机截距交叉滞后面板模型揭示了独特的运动-执行功能关系模式。具体来说，精细运动技能和执行功能在时间1和时间2之间相互预测。此外，时间2的精细运动技能显著地预测了时间3的执行功能，而相反的模式没有被观察到。相反，在大肌肉运动技能和执行功能之间没有发现显著的纵向关系。这些发现表明，将精细运动技能和执行功能结合起来的干预措施对智力残疾儿童至关重要，为支持他们的技能发展提供了重要途径。

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Human Movement Science 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

4.80%

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审稿时长

42 days

期刊介绍： Human Movement Science provides a medium for publishing disciplinary and multidisciplinary studies on human movement. It brings together psychological, biomechanical and neurophysiological research on the control, organization and learning of human movement, including the perceptual support of movement. The overarching goal of the journal is to publish articles that help advance theoretical understanding of the control and organization of human movement, as well as changes therein as a function of development, learning and rehabilitation. The nature of the research reported may vary from fundamental theoretical or empirical studies to more applied studies in the fields of, for example, sport, dance and rehabilitation with the proviso that all studies have a distinct theoretical bearing. Also, reviews and meta-studies advancing the understanding of human movement are welcome. These aims and scope imply that purely descriptive studies are not acceptable, while methodological articles are only acceptable if the methodology in question opens up new vistas in understanding the control and organization of human movement. The same holds for articles on exercise physiology, which in general are not supported, unless they speak to the control and organization of human movement. In general, it is required that the theoretical message of articles published in Human Movement Science is, to a certain extent, innovative and not dismissible as just "more of the same."