Table 2 The comparison of motor skills for Taiwanese school-aged boys and girls with the standardized sample from the UK.

From: Cultural differences in motor skills and psychometric evaluation of the MABC-2 in Taiwanese school-aged children

Items

6

7

8

9

10

 

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

MDa1-pref

17.33 (2.02)

16.06* (2.05)

28.33* (4.65)

28.07* (3.73)

27.39 (5.11)

26.74 (3.88)

25.37 (5.50)

25.78 (4.79)

24.96 (4.85)

23.22* (3.04)

MD1-npref

19.81 (3.18)

18.06 (3.11)

32.86* (7.52)

31.2* (5.2)

31.46 (6.63)

30.59 (5.09)

27.53 (5.24)

27.44 (5.46)

28.6 (5.32)

26.33 (2.95) *

MD2

42.74 (9.84)

35.65 (7.84)

30.62 (7.79)

29.93 (6.85)

29.93 (19.17)

25.04 (6.69)

23.95* (6.02)

21.22 (5.02)

23.32 (6.58)

21.11 (4.65)

MD3

0.85 (1.85)

0.00 (0.00)

0.95 (1.56)

0.80 (1.08)

0.43 (0.84)

0.48 (0.80)

0.26 (0.65)

0.33 (0.71)

0.48 (1.26)

0.06 (0.24)

ACb1

7.11* (2.28)

7.35 (2.03)

3.71* (3.33)

3.13* (2.62)

6.21 (3.34)

4.78* (2.55)

4.79* (3.63)

3.22 (3.03)

5.60* (3.95)

4.83 (3.26)

AC2

5.85 (2.38)

6.53 (1.66)

4.33* (1.59)

5.13 (2.20)

5.36* (2.66)

5.78 (1.70)

6.47 (1.84)

7.44 (1.13)

7.00* (2.02)

6.61 (1.85)

Balc1-Best

26.19* (7.04)

28.29 (4.43)

17.10 (6.69)

19.33 (10.04)

21.54 (9.45)

22.67 (9.10)

24.58 (8.32)

24.44 (8.46)

23.80 (9.77)

27.61 (6.06)

Bal1-Other

20.26 (9.61)

25.29 (6.82)

9.29 (4.35)

10.80 (8.74)

15.18* (10.42)

16.63 (10.53)

15.74 (10.26)

20.00 (10.00)

17.44 (10.96)

22.33* (9.01)

Bal2

13.15 (3.67)

14.88 (0.49)

11.48 (3.98)

13.00 (4.05)

12.43 (4.41)

13.00 (4.05)

13.68 (2.91)

14.33 (1.32)

12.84 (3.80)

14.94 (0.24)

Bal3-best

4.22 (1.16)

4.65 (0.61)

4.38 (0.67)

4.73 (0.59)

4.57 (0.69)

4.56 (0.93)

4.63 (1.01)

4.78 (0.67)

4.80 (0.65)

4.89 (0.32)

Bal3-other

3.29 (1.15)

4.47 (0.74)

3.93 (1.33)

3.78* (1.53)

4.37 (1.01)

4.44 (0.73)

4.32 (0.99)

4.50 (0.71)

  1. aMD: Manual Dexterity,
  2. bAC: Aiming and Catching. cBal: Balance
  3. *Significant differences with the standardized sample from the UK (p < .05).