20.500.12556/DKUM-89479 Associations between physical activity and academic competence a cross-sectional study among Slovenian primary school students Physical activity has beneficial effects on overall academic performance in children. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding how the individual characteristics of physical activity interact with other confounding variables of academic competence. Leisure-time physical activity with potential confounders—such as developmental, behavioral, family, and school factors, predicting overall, mathematical, and reading academic competence—was studied in a random sample of 1520 Slovenian primary school students in grades 4–6 (51.9% female; mean age = 10.4 years; SD = 0.93). A structured self-reported questionnaire was used to gather data on the children’s leisuretime physical activity and social-demographic variables, while academic competence was measured by teachers using the SSRS Academic Competence Evaluation Scale. The findings showed that children engage in physical activity most days a week, with moderate-intensity and unorganized activities. It was predicted that engaging in physical activity would lead to an increase in academic performance by 4.2% in males (p = 0.002) and 3.2% in females (p = 0.024), but after fully adjusting the model for controlling confounding variables, the prediction increased to 81.1% in females and 84.1% in males (p < 0.001). The frequency and intensity of physical activity, the absence of digital games, and attending sports clubs seem to have the most beneficial effects in terms of academic competence in school children, among other relevant confounders mediating in this complex relationship. physical activity leisure time sports academic competences late childhood multiple regression analyses fizična aktivnost prosti čas šport akademske kompetence pozno otroštvo analize true true true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-07-12 08:10:01 2024-07-12 08:23:55 2024-07-16 12:42:51 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 1-18 Št. 2, št. članka 623 Letn. 19 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2021-12-05 2022-01-05 2022-01-06 796.01 92676355 10.3390/ijerph19020623 1660-4601 Zurc-2022-Associations_between_Physical_Activi.pdf Zurc-2022-Associations_between_Physical_Activi.pdf 1 D1425C4EB9D8F502684BCF7DBB3D2DB8 a20068f12d730fca0b3ec219b8e09cbfeb74afb14f3085188453e56dacf9643b 123ad71b-4017-11ef-907b-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181411 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020623 0 1f61b1ab-4017-11ef-907b-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181412 Filozofska fakulteta Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0