Criatividade em crianças com diferentes níveis de aptidão cardiorespiratória e massa gorda

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Gleydciane Alexandre
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cognição; Comportamento; Aptidão física; Pensamento divergente; Escolares; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/27490

Creativity is a component of cognition and has been pointed out as one of the most important skills for human development. In this way, recent studies seek to understand the brain's mechanisms of creativity and how it can be improved through exercises. It is already clear in the literature that fat mass accumulation (FM) and less cardiorespiratory fitness (CF) are associated with poor performance in inhibitory control, attention, working memory and school performance in children, however, the influence of these factors on creativity has not yet been well defined. OBJECTIVE: To compare creativity in groups with different levels of CF and FM, as well as to verify the correlation between these variables. METHODS: A crosssectional study was carried out with 87 children (age 10.5 (10.2-10.7), FM 31.9 (30.5 - 33.8),Vo² 44 ± 3.4), FM was measured by bone densitometry DXA, divided into two groups (normal weights and overweight and obese). The CF level was used the indirect measurement of Vo² max, Shuttle run - 20m and divided into two groups through the health criterion for cardiorespiratory fitness (healthy and risk). Creativity was measured through the Infant Creativity Test (TCFI). The normality of the data was investigated through the Shapiro-Wilk test and Levene homogeneity, the comparison of the groups performed through the independent variables test and Mann-Whitney and for the correlation of the variables the Pearson and Spearman tests. RESULTS: No significant difference was found in the creativity between the groups in relation to FM (p = .984) and CF (p = .741). There were also no correlations between these variables Creativity and FM (r = .016) and creativity and CF (r = .076). CONCLUSION: We can conclude that in this study Creativity does not differ according to the levels of FM and CF, as there is no correlation between the variables.