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Baumann, Nicole (2020) Motor impairment and clumsiness in childhood, predictors and long-term consequences. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
The acquisition of motor coordination and motor control is dependent upon and shaped by the child’s growing and maturing body, as well as by the physical and social environment. Within this framework, motor development is linked with other functional and psychological domains, such as cognitive, behavioural and social development. Although motor impairments have been associated with adverse developmental and functional outcomes, even into adolescence and adulthood, investigations of lifespan psychological development often seem to underestimate and sometimes even neglect the contribution of motor factors and their development.
Using data from two prospective longitudinal cohorts of neonatal at-risk and healthy term born children in Germany and Finland, this thesis focusses on the course of motor functioning from birth to 5 years of age. It investigates perinatal, neonatal and early social environmental risk factors of early motor difficulties, as well as associations between early motor difficulties and subsequent child and adult outcomes. Study 1 used data from both cohorts, and Study 2 and 3 used data from the German cohort only.
Study 1 found that early motor development is influenced by neonatal complications, abnormal neonatal neurological status, length of initial hospitalisation and poor early parent-infant relationships. Study 2 showed that motor problems in infancy are likely to affect motor and cognitive outcomes at school-age, but not mental health, while receipt of physiotherapy had no beneficial effect. Study 3 demonstrated that early motor difficulties during the first 5 years of life have long-term implications for adult motor competence, but not for adult IQ.
In summary, the thesis highlights the importance of early parent-infant relationships alongside the monitoring of neonatal health for early motor development. Further, evidence of early motor development as an important precursor of long-term outcomes across multiple psychological domains in both healthy term and neonatal at-risk born individuals is provided.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Motor ability in children, Clumsiness in children, Psychomotor disorders in children | ||||
Official Date: | October 2020 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Psychology | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Tresilian, James ; Wolke, Dieter | ||||
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Extent: | xv, 390 leaves : illustrations, map | ||||
Language: | eng |
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