Percepção de competência e desempenho motor: um estudo correlacional com escolares

Abstract

This study had as an objective, to analyze the level of perceived competence and motor performance from 11 and 12 years old students, from Cascavel city of the Paraná. The sample was composed for 672 students from schools (13.1% of the population), with ages between 11 and 12 years, of 5th and 6th series of the basic education of the state schools (340 of female sort and 332 of the male sort). To verify the competence perception, the Protocol of Perception of Competence of Harter was used (1985), adapted for Fiorese (1993). The motor performance was evaluated by means of tests considered for Gaia and Silva (2007), being selected the tests of explosive force of superior members, explosive force of inferior members, test of agility and test of speed. The protocol considered was used for Fernandes Filho (1999) for collection of the referring data to the stature and corporal mass. For analysis of the data statistical package SPSS 13,0 for Windows was used. It was used descriptive statistics. Test "U" of Mann-Whitney was used to verify the differences between sort, age and sportive experience in relation the variable of performance and competence perception. To verify the association enters the factors of competence perception and the performance variable were used the Qui-square Test. Value of p<0,05 was adopted. The results had demonstrated a significant difference enter the sorts in the perception of competence in subscales motor and physical appearance and mannering behavior. It enters the participants of esportive training and not participant ones, were found a significant difference in subscales affective and a highly significant difference for subscale motor. With relation to the pertaining to school performance had been observed significant differences between the ages and the sorts. In the tests of motor performance the group that participates of training presented significantly better values in all the tests in relation to the group that does not participate. It was observed negative associations significant in the test of explosive force of inferior members in the group the participants of sportive training. The conclusion is that when someone makes part of a sportive training it can assist in the development of the self-confidence and of self-esteem motor and to favor the development of a positive self-concept.