Till Utesch

University of Lübeck · Institute of Health Sciences

Fur den aus 8 Items bestehenden Deutschen Motorik-Test 6-18 (Bos et al., 2009) konnte bislang weder ein eindimensionales noch zweidimensionales (Koordination/Kondition) Strukturmodell bestatigt werden. Anhand probabilistischer (Mixed-Rasch-Modell) und klassischer (konfirmatorische Faktorenanalyse) Testmodelle wird gepruft, ob von Bos et al. (2009)...

Background. Accurately judging student motivation enables individualized and student-centered instruction. However, teachers in school tend to judge student motivation inaccurately. Low availability of motivation-related cues, like mastery-approach goals and work-avoidance goals, may explain neglecting these cues in judging motivation. Instead, gen...

Background Childhood obesity is associated with various health outcomes. Restrictive measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, like lockdowns and school closures, affected children’s daily structure, physical activity, dietary habits, and sleep quality, possibly exacerbating risk factors for childhood obesi...

Abstract: Idee und Ziel des 2011 gestarteten Programms BERLIN HAT TALENT sind, eine Offensive für Bewegung und Sport in der Stadt zu etablieren und entwicklungsfördernde Sport- und Bewegungsangebot zu schaffen. Zu diesem Zweck wird jährlich die physische Fitness von Drittklässlerinnen und Drittklässlern Berlins mit Hilfe des Deutschen Motorik-Tests...

In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, various measures were taken to contain its spread, including restrictions on physical education and sports clubs. These measures substantially limited children's physical activity behaviors and may have compromised their motor development. Such compromising effects may be particularly...

CvO Oldenburg)) gefördert wurde. Die Daten stammen aus dem vom Berliner Senat und dem Berliner Landessportbund geförderten Programm BERLIN HAT TALENT 1. Gegenstand des Forschungsprojektes war der Einfluss von Maßnahmen im Zusammenhang mit der COVID-19 Pandemie auf die motorische Entwicklung von Kindern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des ("schuls...

Writing presents considerable challenges to students’ motivation. Yet there is a dearth of studies assessing the role of affect and motivation in writing performance for students with migration backgrounds (MB), who often underachieve in writing. Our study addressed this research gap by investigating the interplay between writing self-efficacy, wri...

In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, various measures were taken to contain its spread, including restrictions on physical education and sports clubs. These measures substantially limited children's physical activity behaviors and may have compromised their motor development. Such compromising effects may be particularly...

Childhood obesity is associated with various adverse health outcomes. Restrictive measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, like lockdowns and school closures, affected children’s daily structure, physical activity, dietary habits, and sleep quality, possibly exacerbating risk factors for childhood obesity...

Although process-oriented writing instruction with feedback can support multilingual writers in particular, little is known about these practices and their influence on text quality. Therefore, this paper provides insights into writing and feedback practices and analyzes how these practices can account for writing differences, considering migration...

The lens model allows examination of rater-rater agreement due to raters’ cue utilization. Students’ and teachers’ different judgments of motivation (Urhahne & Wijnia, 2021), thus, can be better understood in identifying indicators that students and teachers utilize for motivation judgments. N = 63 teachers (mean age = 42.0) and their 2,056 (mean a...

Success as a dancer is closely associated with positive dance judgments by perceivers. Although dancers' physical appearance (attractiveness, style) might affect dance judgments beyond dance-specific attributes (technique, expression), they have largely been unconsidered in previous studies. To contribute to a comprehensive explanation of real-life...

Sportmotorische Tests stellen spezifische Erhebungsmethoden dar, mit denen die aktuelle Leistung oder eine Leistungsveränderung sowohl in der sportwissenschaftlichen Forschung als auch in der Sportpraxis gemessen werden kann. Auswahl, Anwendung, Entwicklung und Evaluation sportmotorischer Tests bedingen neben der Berücksichtigung der Testgütekriter...

Einführung In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten wurde Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern immer deutlicher, dass die Identifikation von Talenten im Sport zwingend vielfältiger und multifaktorieller auszurichten ist (Hohmann, Fehr, Siener, & Hochstein, 2017). Dabei gilt es, mehrere Quellen, die aus wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, quantitativen bzw. qualitat...

The lens model allows examination of rater-rater agreement due to raters’ cue utilization. Students’ and teachers’ different judgments of motivation (Urhahne & Wijnia, 2021), thus, can be better understood in identifying indicators that students and teachers utilize for motivation judgments. N = 63 teachers (mean age = 42.0) and their 2,056 (mean a...

BERLIN HAT TALENT seit 2012-Jeder hat die Chance, seine motorische Begabung zu zeigen und Defizite zu erkennen IST-Stand nach Abschluss des Schuljahres 2022

Background Sedentary, digital screen time in children represents a major concern due to its detrimental effect on children’s development. Nowadays, however, advances in technology allow children to actively interact with a digital screen using their whole body (e.g., exergaming), providing potential for movement learning. Exergaming technology may...

Purpose Movement competence is a key outcome for primary physical education (PE) curricula. As movement development in children emerges through physical activity (PA), it is important to determine the extent of PA promotion within movement competence focused teaching pedagogies. Therefore, this study aimed to assess children’s moderate-to-vigorous...

Activity self-tracking technologies have become a popular tool for monitoring physical activity, used to assist individuals in increasing physical activity. Previous findings, however, are inconclusive on whether standalone activity self-tracking, alone or in combination with a step goal, is efficient in encouraging physical activity behavior. This...

Die Förderung des selbstregulierten Lernens sollte Aufgabe und Ziel von Schule sein. Allerdings findet eine solche Förderung selten statt, da es Lehrkräften an professionellen Kompetenzen zur Förderung des selbstregulierten Lernens mangelt (u.a. Dignath, 2016; Kramarski & Kohen, 2017; Spruce & Bol, 2015). Damit einher geht die Annahme, dass Lehrkrä...

Individuals and institutions around the world have been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Herein, we investigate the role of basic (Big Five and HEXACO) and specific (Dark Factor of Personality, Narcissistic Rivalry, and Narcissistic Admiration) personality traits for 17 criteria related to COVID-19, grouped into (i) personal per...

Zusammenfassung Aufgrund ihrer Einfachheit und Nutzerfreundlichkeit wird für die Erfassung der subjektiven Beanspruchungswahrnehmung in Training und Wettkampf bevorzugt die Category Ratio Scale (CR10-Skala) oder eine daran angelehnte Ein-Item-Skala eingesetzt. Die CR10-Skala stellt eine nicht-lineare, leicht positiv beschleunigte Funktion bezogen a...

Background: The meaningful assessment of motor competence is well positioned for school-based curricular emphasis, through the integration of motor skills and movement patterns in both primary, and second level school physical education. Aligned with the growing interest in holistic motor competence assessment in physical education, the aim of this...

High levels of perceived motor competence and low levels of actual motor competence in youth populations have been reported world-wide. Both perceived and actual motor competence have been deemed independent correlates of health and physical activity (PA) behavior, and past research has indicated that their alignment may be linked to more consisten...

Digitalization and the availability of smartphones have changed the way people communicate and how they gain information about themselves and their environment. In health and lifestyle contexts, fitness apps have become widely used tools to track and enhance health behavior such as physical activity. Fitness apps offer various functions, such as tr...

Background: The dynamic nature of physical education (PE) requires careful consideration of lesson planning and delivery in order to promote health and wellbeing and to achieve various learning goals. One such goal is promoting personal and social development to support students to value and lead a healthy and active lifestyle, especially during tr...

This study aimed to examine the associations between play behaviors during preschool recess and foundational movement skills (FMS) in typically developing preschool children. One hundred and thirty-three children (55% male; mean age 4.7 ± 0.5 years) from twelve preschools were video-assessed for six locomotor and six object-control FMS using the Ch...

Background: School-based interventions are a key opportunity to improve children's physical activity (PA); however, there is lack of evidence about how pedagogical approaches to motor learning in physical education (PE) might affect PA in children. Therefore, this study aimed to assess how different pedagogical approaches in PE might affect childr...

BACKGROUND: An understanding of how motor skill performance levels relate to energy expenditure (EE) is an important, yet relatively unexplored topic that may better inform physical activity interventions. AIM: This study examined the impact of motor competence(MC) on EE during the performance of object control skills in children and young adults....

Fitness apps are promising digital tools to support self-tracking and physical activity. Specific app functions such as normalised step targets represent controlling conditions that can affect controlled vs. autonomous motivation and thus motivated physical activity. It was the aim of this study to examine the effects of self-tracking via a fitness...

Large-scale health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, may evoke negative affective responses, which are linked to psychological maladjustment and psychopathology. Here, we shed light on the role of the personality trait neuroticism in predicting who experiences negative affective responses. In a large-scale experience-sampling study (N = 1,609;...

While football/soccer is the most influential sport in the world, it is surprising that developmental sequences of forceful kicking have not been adequately described and validated in the literature. The purpose of this study was to explore potential developmental sequences for forceful kicking using a prelongitudinal screening method. Data were de...

Introduction: Monitoring of physical fitness in youth is important because physical fitness is a summative indicator of health. From a developmental and preventive perspective, physical fitness levels are relatively stable from childhood to early adulthood. Thus, it is important to monitor physical fitness on a population based level being able to...

Zusammenfassung Sowohl die Motorische Leistungsfähigkeit (MLF) als auch das physische Selbstkonzept (PSK) sind bereits im frühen Kindesalter mit verschiedenen Faktoren gelingender Entwicklung wie beispielsweise der körperlichen Aktivität und dem globalen Selbstwert verbunden. Die Frage nach altersabhängigen wechselseitigen Effekten zwischen der MLF...

People and institutions around the world have been affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Herein, we investigate the role of both basic (HEXACO and Big Five) and specific (Dark Factor of Personality, Narcissistic Rivalry and Admiration) personality traits for 17 criteria related to COVID-19, grouped into (i) personal perceptions in te...

Previous studies investigating the relationship between motor skill, physical activity and fitness in children have not thoroughly considered the role of self-perception. Therefore, the study aim was to test a theoretical framework, which considered both actual and perceived motor skill as well as actual and perceived fitness. Potential moderating...

Background There is a need for interdisciplinary research to better understand how pedagogical approaches in primary physical education (PE) can support the linked development of physical, cognitive and affective aspects of physical literacy and physical activity behaviors in young children living in deprived areas. The Skill Acquisition Methods fo...

Self-tracking via fitness apps is popular and has been described as a means to enhance body awareness and well-being. However, the effects of fitness-app use and specific app functions on well-being and body awareness have yet to be targeted in controlled experimental studies. In two randomized groups, a fitness tracker was used for 6 weeks, and in...

Fitness apps are promising digital tools to support self-tracking and physical activity. Specific app functions such as normalized step targets represent controlling conditions that can affect controlled vs. autonomous motivation and thus motivated physical activity. It was the aim of this study to examine the effects of self-tracking via a fitness...

Large-scale health crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, may evoke negative affective responses, which are closely linked to psychological maladjustment and psychopathology. Here, we shed light on the role of the personality trait neuroticism in predicting who is at risk and why. In a large-scale experience-sampling study based on a German conveni...

Background: Before an intervention can be implemented to improve pain-related self-efficacy, assessment is required. The aim of the present study was to provide a systematic review on which self-efficacy scales are being used among patients with back pain and to evaluate their psychometric properties. Methods: A systematic search was executed in...

Zusammenfassung Zum Talentscreening im Sport werden Testbatterien eingesetzt, die unterschiedliche sportmotorische Fertigkeiten sowie entwicklungsrelevante Parameter erheben. Standardauswertungsverfahren führen in der Regel zur Einordnung der Getesteten in zumeist fünfstufige Leistungsklassen. Insbesondere bei großen Stichproben werden allerdings V...

The purpose was to identify classes of different developmental trajectories of BMI and testing them for differences in motor competence (MC) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), in children and adolescents (4 to 13 years of age). This was a 5 years’ longitudinal study with six cohorts. One hundred and forty-seven children (69 girls) divided into si...

Objective Motor impairments after stroke can lead to limitations in functional performance and mental health. Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have mainly assessed randomized clinical trials of mental practice interventions (MPI) among stroke patients, focusing on physical outcomes. However, mentally rehearsing a motor movement might i...

Children’s positive perceived motor competence (PMC) provides motivation for physical activity. Theoretically young children (<8 years) have inflated PMC but as children cognitively develop, perceptions are hypothesized to decrease. This study investigated strength of PMC association over time, whether any change was negative (i.e. PMC decreased) a...

The Self-Determination Theory has been applied to explain behaviour in numerous contexts and cultures. In the exercise context, causality orientations (autonomy, control, impersonal) are important to describe individual differences in initiation and maintenance of health behaviour. The assessment of exercise causality orientations can be a key elem...

Objectives: Self-perceptions such as perceived motor competence and psychosocial wellbeing have been identified as important to children's physical activity. The study's purpose was to explore whether perceived motor competence and psychosocial wellbeing were determinants of physical activity, one year after a baseline assessment. Design: Longit...

Purpose: Motor assessments generally produce a single motor competence score based on the general motor ability hypothesis, which states that motor competence is a one-dimensional trait underlying a wide range of motor skills. Yet, it is unclear if the general motor ability hypothesis holds true in middle childhood which is marked by an increased p...

Abstract Objectives To examine the effects of different protocols of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on VO2max improvements in healthy, overweight/obese and athletic adults, based on the classifications of work intervals, session volumes and training periods. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods PubMed, Scopus, Medline,...

The 15th European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology – Building the Future of Sport and Exercise Psychology The FEPSAC Congress took place from July 15th to 20th 2019 in Muenster at the Schloss (the Muenster Castle) and its surrounding buildings. The special occasion is the 50th anniversary of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FE...

Background: Mental practice refers to the imaginary representation of a motor action. Mental practice interventions are frequently used among stroke survivors to improve motor function. Individual characteristics that may determine whether a person is able to mentally perform a specific movement have been mainly spared in research. Aims: The aim of...

Psychosoziale Korrelate von eSports im Studium Erste Ergebnisse einer hochschulweiten Gesundheitsumfrage (N>4.000). Assoziation zwischen eSports und... - Stresserleben (PSS) - kognitiver & emotionaler Irritation (Irritationsskala) - Engagement im Studium (UWES-9) - Depression und generalisierter Ängstlichkeit (PHQ-4)

Background: Motor competence and physical fitness are important factors for promoting positive trajectories of health over time. In 2008, Stodden and colleagues developed a model that discussed the role of both factors in physical activity. Furthermore, the authors hypothesized that the relationship between motor competence and physical fitness is...

Though it is well-established that self-esteem develops from childhood well into old age, little is known about the processes that influence this change, especially among young populations. This international, cross-sequential study examined the development of self-esteem in 1599 second-graders (Age MT1 = 7.99, SDT1 = 0.52 years; 52% male) in the N...

Motor competence denotes an individual’s degree of proficient performance in a broad range of motor skills as well as the underlying mechanisms including quality of movement, motor coordination and motor control (Burton & Miller, 1998; Gabbard, 2008). Motor competence can also be defined as a person’s proficiency to execute fundamental motor skills...

Background: Motor competence and physical fitness are important factors for promoting positive trajectories of health over time. In 2008, Stodden and colleagues developed a model that discussed the role of both factors in physical activity. Furthermore, the authors hypothesized that the relationship between motor competence and physical fitness is...

The pictorial scale of Physical Self-Concept in Children (P-PSC-C) is a relatively new instrument for investigating physical self-concept in childhood. The current study aims to examine the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the P-PSC-C, and also to analyse the validity according to the children’s age. A sample of 365 primary school...

This collection of essays celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor Roland Naul. The chapters, written by colleagues and friends, illustrate the development of sport and physical activity research over four decades. They give an overview and update of relevant fields that determined the academic work of Roland Naul and new insights. The chapters ha...

Continuous self-tracking via fitness apps has become popular and has been described as a way of practicing body awareness. Many app providers have implemented a daily step target option in the app. However, potential effects of fitness app usage and specific app functions (i.e., a step target of 10,000 steps per day) on psychological well-being and...

It is commonly assumed that sport plays an important role for national identity. However, empirical research has primarily focused on sport’s role for emotional-affectice rather than cognitive aspects of national identity. Therefore, research presented here explores whether identification with the German national soccer team serves to reinforce eth...

Kontinuierliches Monitoring physischer Fitness im Kindesalter ist aus gesellschaftlicher sowie individueller Perspektive bedeutsam, um eine gesunde kindliche Entwicklung zu unterstützen. Entsprechend wird von der Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) und dem Deutschen Olympischen Sportbund (DOSB) in gemeinsamen Handlungsempfehlungen (2017, S. 9) der Einsat...

Both the physical self-concept and actual motor competence are important for healthy future physical activity levels and consequently decrease overweight and obesity in childhood. However, children scoring high on motor competence do not necessarily report high levels of physical self-concept and vice versa, resulting in respective (in-) accuracy a...

Background Integrated and comprehensive community-based health promotion approaches aimed at children are systematically supported in North Rhine-Westphalia. The goal is a community-based approach that focuses on health promotion from the prenatal phase to career entry. Findings regarding the effects on health and the scope of this approach are lac...

Children's self-perception of motor skills and physical fitness is said to be an important mediator between skills and physical fitness on the one hand and physical activity on the other hand. An age-appropriate self-perception scale is needed to understand the development and the differentiation of the physical selfconcept of children and its comp...

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The perception of one's own motor skills can be an important mediator between motor skills and physical activity in childhood. For early childhood, questionnaires are available to measure the self-perception of motor skills (locomotion and object-control) via pictorial scales with one item representing each skill. During childhood, self-perception...

Open science, that is, open and transparent research, is a promising way out of the crisis of confidence in the empirical social sciences. To actively engage in and support this development as a researcher, scholars suggest publishing information at the end of the research process open material, data, code and, optimally, a preregistration of the p...

Literature has shown that motor competence plays a crucial role in children's physical activity engagement (Robinson et al., 2015). In light of this, different assessment tools have been developed to capture and monitor motor competence across childhood. Motor assessments generally produce a composite score –consisting of diverse motor skills– unde...