Does Taekwondo improve children’s self-regulation? If so, how? A randomized field experiment.

作者：Terry Ng‐Knight, Katie Anne Gilligan-Lee, Jessica Massonnié, Hanna Gaspard, Debbie Gooch, Dawn Querstret, Nicola Johnstone · 发表于：Developmental Psychology · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1037/dev0001307 · 被引用次数：26 · 研究领域：Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education、Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

= 240, age range 7 to 11 years). Measures of self-regulation included teacher-rated effortful control, impulsivity, prosocial behavior, and conduct problems; computer-based assessments of executive functions; and child self-reported expectancies and values to use self-regulation. Postintervention, children in the Taekwondo condition were rated by teachers as having fewer symptoms of conduct problems and better effortful control (specifically attentional control), and they also had better executive attention assessed by a flanker task. Effects were not found for teacher-rated inhibitory control, activation control, impulsivity, and prosocial behavior or for assessments of response inhibition, verbal working memory, and switching. Taekwondo was rated very positively by children. Finally, there was evidence that children who completed Taekwondo classes reported higher expectancies and values to use self-regulation and that expectancies and values mediated intervention effects on self-regulation. We conclude that short standard Taekwondo courses are well received by pupils, improve attentional self-regulation, and reduce symptoms of conduct problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).