Better movers, better friends? A test for the environmental stress hypothesis in typically developing primary school children

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Analysis reveals how motor skills relate to internalizing problems in typically developing children, highlighting stressors.

Children's motor skills are related to internalizing problems in typically developing children, suggesting developmental impacts.
Multilevel structural equation models indicated weak indirect relations of social self-efficacy with internalizing issues.
The environmental stress hypothesis appears relevant for
Prosocial behaviour and externalizing problems did not mediate the relations between motor skills and internalizing problems.

Bruijn et al. (2025) studied this question.

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