Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify concordance between the objective evaluation and parental subjective evaluation of fundamental movements of young children. The participants were 179 young children (94 boys and 85 girls, mean age 4.8 years, range 3-6) and their parents. For the seven types of fundamental movements, the action level was evaluated objectively by an expert using a five-point scale and subjectively by parents using a questionnaire. We found that concordance between the objective evaluation and subjective evaluation of the fundamental movements of children was low. This result suggests that the parents underestimated the level of fundamental movements of their children, which may have decreased the concordance.
