ABSTRACT
Attitudes of 2,624 college students toward working with children with disabilities were identified.
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Attitude to Health , Disabled Persons , Physical Education and Training , Teaching , Child , Education, Special , Humans , United States , UniversitiesABSTRACT
This study compared attitudes of 816 undergraduates toward students with disabilities by whether the state licensed teachers for adapted physical education. Analysis indicated mean attitude scores in states with such licensure were significantly more positive than in states working toward licensure and those with none.
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Attitude , Disabled Persons , Licensure , Physical Education and Training/standards , Students/psychology , Teaching/standards , Disabled Persons/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Mainstreaming, Education/legislation & jurisprudence , Personality Inventory/statistics & numerical data , United StatesSubject(s)
Attitude , Child Day Care Centers , Disabled Persons/psychology , Mainstreaming, Education , Personality Inventory/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Early Intervention, Educational , Female , Humans , Male , Peer Group , Psychometrics , Reproducibility of ResultsABSTRACT
The purpose of this investigation was to assess (a) proportions of children unable to perform each of three measures of upper body strength and endurance--pull-up, flexed-arm hang, and modified pull-up; (b) relationships among selected attribute variables of age, weight, percent body fat, and body mass index, and the three measures of upper body strength and endurance; and (c) the attribute variables which best predict scores for the three measures of upper body strength and endurance. Subjects were 104 elementary school children in Grades 1 through 6. Percentages of children obtaining zero scores were computed. Intercorrelations among the attribute and upper body strength and endurance variables were examined for significance and effect size. For each of the three measures of upper body strength and endurance, a max R2 forward stepwise, multiple regression analysis was performed to identify which attribute variables best predict the score of that particular measure. Analyses indicated that age and percent body fat were the best predictors of pull-up and flexed-arm hang scores, whereas age and body mass index best predicted the modified pull-up score.
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Physical Endurance/physiology , Physical Fitness/physiology , Adipose Tissue/physiology , Age Factors , Body Mass Index , Body Weight/physiology , Child , Exercise , Female , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
The purpose of the investigation was to examine the relationships among children's selected attributes, health-related physical fitness; and self-concept development. Subjects were 97 elementary school children in Grades 1 through 6. Correlations were examined for significance and effect size among the attributes of age, weight, body mass index, four scores from the Health Related Physical Fitness Test, and the total score from the Martinek-Zaichkowsky Self-concept Scale for Children. A max R2 forward stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed to assess which attribute and physical fitness variables were the best predictors of self-concept scores. Analysis indicated that the one-variable model of weight was the best predictor of self-concept.
