Relationship Between Kinesthetic Perception, Motor Competence, Physical Fitness and Emotional Intelligence in Children

The data will be collected by both subjective and objective assessments. The data collection will be organized at the premises of the participating schools during the time allocated for physical education and breaks. Consent will be taken from each participant before any assessment. The data will be collected included anthroprometric and demographics included sex, age, class/grade level, height, weight, BMI (calculated as the weight divided by the square of height). Measurement tools such as, PMSC will be used to assess motor competence and physical fitness in young children. It is a performance based tool, PMSC will assess children's fundamental locomotion skills such as catching, running, kicking, jumping forward, skipping and hitting ball with one hand. Each question will be scored as 'good' or 'not as good'. Kinesthetic perception will be assessed by Nelson hand reaction time. It is a performance based activity. It will test the subject's kinesthetic perception visually, auditory senses and tactile senses. Emotional Intelligence will be assessed using PANAS tool.

Inclusion criteria

• Age of the participants 10 to 15 years
• Male and female will be included.
• Obese Class 1, class 2, class 3

Exclusion criteria

• Children who have high risk level and poor safety as it pertains to physical activity.
• Children with disabilities that are limited in their ability to understand the testing instructions or the performance of the activities (e.g., cognitive impairments, gross motor impairments etc.). •. Children with any kind of disability and congenital deformity