Gender differences in performance of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children - 2^nd edition test in adolescents

Validity of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children test - 2^nd edition in older adolescents

“…Moreover, 93.8% of participants, who were identified as having moderate to significant motor difficulties based on their total test score, accomplished the BAL 3 task with the maximum possible score. These findings indicate the poor sensitivity of the balance tasks of the AB3 version in adolescents, which had already previously been questioned even for adolescents under 17 years of age Valtr, Psotta, & Abdollahipour, 2016).…”

Are boys and girls just different? Gender differences in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd edition (M ABC‐2) suggests that they are.

“…The impact of gender on a child's motor skill development is inconsistently reported in the literature depending on the nature of the task assessed and the age at the time of assessment. Some researchers argue that girls have superior skills in visual perception, and that the differences are related to socio‐cultural and environmental factors including that girls spend more time than boys involved in tasks which require more dextrous movements (Thomas & French, ; Valtr et al, ). Our results are consistent with previous research which identified that girls performed statistically significantly better in all the manual dexterity tasks and boys performed better in the catching task on the first and second editions of the M ABC (Junaid & Fellowes, ; Kokštejn et al, ; Valtr et al, ).…”

“…For the second edition, Valtr, Psotta, and Abdollahipour () found statistically significant differences between girls and boys on the M ABC‐2 in their cohort of 120 adolescents aged 15 and 16 years from the Czech Republic. They reported that girls performed better on manual dexterity tasks and boys performed better in aiming and catching tasks.…”

Performance on the movement assessment battery for children: a systematic review about gender differences. [Desempeño en la batería de evaluación del movimiento para niños: una revisión sistemática sobre las diferencias de género].

“…ender differences in motor performance have been pointed out in the literature. A typical picture is one in which boys performed better than girls in gross motor skills (Freitas, Vasconcelos, & Botelho, 2014;Jelovčan & Zurc, 2016;Ruiz, Graupera, Gutiérrez, & Miyahara, 2003;Valtr, Psotta, & Abdollahipour, 2016) and girls performed better than boys in fine motor skills (Kita, Suzuki, Hirata, Sakihara, Inagaki, & Nakai, 2016;Kokštejn, Musálek, & Tufano, 2017;Mathisen, 2016). However, these outcomes are not consensual, with some studies revealing no such differences (Giagazoglou, Kabitsis, Kokaridas, Zaragas, Katartzi, & Kabitsis, 2011; or even contradictory results (Kjelsås, Stensdotter, & Sigmundsson, 2013).…”