Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran. , jahadian86@gmail.com
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Introduction: motivation is an inner psychological driving force that persuades children to make efforts to master activities or skills that are somewhat challenging, The aim of this study was to anticipate the motor development of children aged 6-23 months by mastery motivation. Method; The study was a descriptive- survey, in this study, 334 children were evaluated at 6-23 months of age in Shiraz, were collected in 1401, and were evaluated by mastery motivation questionnaire (DMQ18) and motor development by age & stage questionnaire (A.S.Q Result: The results showed that motivation predicted 0.04 of the variance of gross motor development and the standard coefficient of the effect of motivation on gross motor development is 0.21, also motivation predicted 0.01 of the variance of fine motor development of children and the standard coefficient of the effect of motivation on fine motor development is 0.11. Conclusion: Children with motor development delays can be motivated by teachers and parents with various strategies such as rhythmic games, so that the motor development delays can be eliminated. Children's motivation evaluation can help motor development specialists and occupational therapists in the cause of motor development delay.
jahadiansarvestani H. Anticipation motor development of children aged 6-23 months by mastery motivation DMQ. JPEN 2024; 10 (4) :23-30 URL: http://jpen.ir/article-1-709-en.html