Environmental Factors Affecting Preschoolers' Motor Development

Early Childhood Education Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 319-327

  Venetsanou, Fotini ^a,b   Kambas, Antonis ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Child development; Child rearing; Children; Cross cultural differences; Environmental influence; Ethnicity; Family; Fine motor; Gross motor; Home environment; Intervention program; Maternal; Motor abilities; Motor development; Motor performance; Motor skills; Movement program; Neighborhood; Physical activity; Preschool; Psychomotor education program; Schooling; Siblings; Social; Social class; Socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449174225     PISSN: 10823301     EISSN: 15731707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10643-009-0350-z     Document Type: Article

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