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Abstract Motor development in early childhood undergoes great maturation and refinements due to the huge contact and interaction with the environment. Numerous environmental factors can affect motor development in many ways that can facilitate, slow or even impair motor skills’ development. Objective: To evaluate the effect of selected environmental factors (various categories of socioeconomic status, nutritional status, presence and number of siblings) on motor development, and assess the relation between selected environmental factorsand motor development in normal children. Methods: Two hundreds and seventy six normal children (out of three hundreds and six) from both sexes aged 4-7 years participated in this study. Motor development was assessed by the short form of Bruininks-Oseretsky Test 2 of Motor Proficiency. Nutritional status was measured by World health organization AnthroPlus software, while socioeconomic status was determined by socioeconomic status scale. Presence and number of siblings was detected through direct questioning of children’sparents. Results: There was no effect of socioeconomic status, nutritional status and number of siblings on motor development, while there was an inverse effect of presence of siblings on motor development. There was nonsignificant relation between socioeconomic status and motor development (r = 0.106, p = 0.078). Also, there was non-significant relation between nutritional status and motor development (r = -0.082, p = 0.175). Presence of siblings was negatively related to motor development (r = - 0.130, p = 0.031). Number of siblings had non-significant relation to motor development (r = -0.045, p = 0.453). Conclusion: There was neither effect nor relation between socioeconomic status, nutritional status and number of siblings, and motor development, while there was an inverse effect and negative relation between presence of siblings and motor development. |