아동의 눈-사지 협응과 물체조작 기술의 관계 = The Relationship between Eye-limb Coordination and Object-control Skills in the Early Childhood

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of eye-limb coordination and the object-control skills with age and sex, and examine the relationship between two-variable groups. For this experiment, 186 children with the age of 5 to 10(99 boys and 87 girls) participated in the study. The eye-limb coordination ability(anticipation timing ability, pursuit ability and reaction ability) and the object-control skill(catching skill, throwing skill, striking skill, kicking skill, bouncing skill) suggested in TGMD(Test of Gross Motor Development)were tested. The two-way ANOVA was used to present the characteristics of the eye-limb coordination ability and the object-control skills according to age and sex. As a result, children with the age of 5 demonstrated the lowest performance while children with the age of 10 showed high performance significantly among age groups. The children with the age of 5 to 6 and 9 to 10 were found to be two critical periods of change with age. However, unlike the eye-limb coordination ability, there was a distinctive feature in the object-control skills of the age 9 and 10 over sex. 10 year-old boys showed a radical progress, but the 10 year-old girls showed a decline on the object-control skills compared with the 9 year-old. A canonical correlation analysis was used to examie the relationship between the eye-limb coordination and the object-control skills for the early childhood. The relationship revealed significantly showing canonical correlation with coefficient .599. Overall, the results indicated the eye-limb coordination ability such as anticipation timing ability with hand and foot showed higher role than pursuit and reaction ability. In addition, the object control skills such as catching and bouncing ability contributed importantly in explaining the relationship between the eye-limb coordination ability and the object control skill.