ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1580843
This article is part of the Research TopicPhysical Education, Health and Education Innovation-Vol IIIView all 9 articles
Building an evaluation model for the motor health of preschool-aged children from the perspective of interdisciplinary integration
Provisionally accepted
- 1Zunyi Normal University College, Zunyi, China
- 2First People’s Hospital of Zunyi, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China
- 3Department of Physical Education, Guiyang Preschool Education College, Guiyang, China
- 4College of Sports Science, Guangxi College for Preschool Education, Guangxi, China
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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 (TM) 24.0 was used to analyze the data and develop a structural equation model for children's motor health.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, 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.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.
Keywords: motor health, Preschool children, Evaluation model, Interdisciplinary, Mental Health
Received: 21 Feb 2025; Accepted: 19 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Du, Chai, Yang and Ao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Xiang Ao, College of Sports Science, Guangxi College for Preschool Education, Guangxi, China
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