. 2022 Aug 23;22:498. doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03553-2

Table 2.

Correlation between cognitive tests and gross motor skills in eutrophic and overweight/obesity preschoolers

	1^a	2^a	3^a	4^a	5^a	6^a	7^a	8^a	9^a	10^a	11^a	12
1. Age^a		0.37	0.49	−0.24	−0.00	− 0.11	0.31	0.18	0.35	−0.18	−0.19	0.15
2. Sex^a	0.15		0.17	−0.38	−0.49	− 0.28	−0.26	0.05	0.27	0.26	0.16	0.27
3. Maternal education^a	0.20	0.22		−0.10	0.06	−0.03	0.09	−0.12	0.26	−0.16	0.06	0.03
4. Locomotor	−0.27	−0.25	− 0.28		0.24	0.79	−0.20	−0.12	− 0.24	−0.17	− 0.30	−0.26
5. OC	−0.24	−0.16	0.01	0.38		0.71	0.18	0.15	−0.22	−0.67	− 0.49	−0.46
6. GMQ	−0.29	−0.20	− 0.12	0.81	0.82		−0.01	−0.05	− 0.32	−0.53	− 0.48	−0.46
7. Day/Night Stroop^a	0.22	0.09	−0.27	0.13	−0.14	0.00		0.23	0.06	−0.20	−0.38	− 0.45
8. Delayed gratification^a	0.39	−0.07	−0.29	− 0.12	−0.35	− 0.31	0.22		0.36	−0.20	−0.12	0.02
9. Word production	0.71	0.21	0,20	−0.39	−0.07	− 0.32	0.03	0.34		0.27	0.11	0.06
10. Errors of SVF^a	0.41	0.34	0.08	−0.03	−0.25	−0.20	0.22	0.08	0.17		0.42	0.12
11. Movements in TH^a	0.13	−0.19	−0.43	0.06	0.02	0.03	0.14	0.06	−0.18	0.08		0.43
12. Rule breaks in TH	0.28	−0.05	− 0.09	−0.00	0.25	0.11	−0.09	0.02	0.13	−0.15	0.50

Bivariate correlations between EF tasks and gross motor skills in eutrophic (lower triangle) and overweight/obese (upper triangle) preschoolers

^aVariables with non-normal distribution for which the Spearman correlation was performed

OC Standard Score Object Control, GMQ Gross Motor Quotient; SVF Semantic Verbal Fluency, TH Tower of Hanoi; Values in bold show correlation coefficients with a value of p < 0,05