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dc.contributor.authorD’Hondt, Eva
dc.contributor.authorBuelens, Lise
dc.contributor.authorBarnett, Lisa M.
dc.contributor.authorHowells, Kristy
dc.contributor.authorSääkslahti, Arja
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Aldo M.
dc.contributor.authorJidovtseff, Boris
dc.contributor.authorMertens, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorDe Martelaer, Kristine
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-12T06:58:30Z
dc.date.available2021-07-12T06:58:30Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationD’Hondt, E., Buelens, L., Barnett, L. M., Howells, K., Sääkslahti, A., Costa, A. M., Jidovtseff, B., Mertens, L., & De Martelaer, K. (2021). Differences between Young Children’s Actual, Self-perceived and Parent-perceived Aquatic Skills. <i>Perceptual and Motor Skills</i>, <i>128</i>(5), 1905-1931. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125211017864" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125211017864</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_97922073
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/77082
dc.description.abstractAs drowning is a leading cause of unintentional injury/death in children worldwide, perceptions of their actual aquatic skills are of critical importance. Children’s self-perceptions may influence the risks they take, and parental perceptions may influence the degree of supervision deemed to be necessary for children in and around water. Accordingly, we examined the differences between young children’s actual, self-perceived and parent-perceived aquatic skills. Using a three-way repeated measures ANCOVA, we analyzed data from 134 child-parent dyads (56.0% boys; M age = 7.1, SD = 1.1 years; and 71.6% mothers). We measured self and parental perceptions of the child’s aquatic skills with the ‘Pictorial Scale of Perceived Water Competence’ (PSPWC), and we applied the exact same 17 test items of the PSPWC to assess the child’s actual aquatic skill level in the water. Controlling for years of swimming school experience, within-subject differences between the total scores on the ‘Actual Aquatic Skills Test’ (AAST) and both the child- and parent-completed PSPWC indicated lower than actual estimates of the children’s aquatic skill level. The degree of disagreement against the AAST was more pronounced in parents than in 6-7 year-old children but was similar between parents and 8-9 year-old children, with these patterns being evident regardless of the children’s sex. Our study contributes to an ongoing validation of the PSPWC and represents a key advance in assessing and comparing children’s actual and perceived aquatic skill competence, using perfectly aligned instruments. Future research and practice might explore children’s actual aquatic skills in different contexts (e.g., open water), include perspectives of non-parent caregivers and assess perceived and actual water competence across development.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPerceptual and Motor Skills
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherwater safety
dc.subject.otherswimming
dc.subject.otheraquatic literacy
dc.subject.othermotor competence
dc.subject.otherperceived competence
dc.subject.otherchildren
dc.subject.otherself-perception
dc.subject.otherparents
dc.subject.otherproxy report
dc.subject.otherpictorial scale
dc.titleDifferences between Young Children’s Actual, Self-perceived and Parent-perceived Aquatic Skills
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202107124267
dc.contributor.laitosLiikuntatieteellinen tiedekuntafi
dc.contributor.laitosFaculty of Sport and Health Sciencesen
dc.contributor.oppiaineLiikuntapedagogiikkafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineSport Pedagogyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange1905-1931
dc.relation.issn0031-5125
dc.relation.numberinseries5
dc.relation.volume128
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2021
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysovanhemmat
dc.subject.ysouimataito
dc.subject.ysouinti
dc.subject.ysolapset (ikäryhmät)
dc.subject.ysomotoriset taidot
dc.subject.ysoitsearviointi
dc.subject.ysoturvallisuuskasvatus
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dc.rights.urlhttp://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
dc.relation.doi10.1177/00315125211017864
jyx.fundinginformationThe author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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