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Record W7116978551 · doi:10.1123/jmld.2025-0020

Understanding Personal Space in Children With and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder

2025· article· W7116978551 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Motor Learning and Development · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicChildren's Physical and Motor Development
Canadian institutionsSunny Hill Health Centre for ChildrenBC Children's HospitalWilfrid Laurier UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeurotypicalPersonal spaceSpace (punctuation)Object (grammar)Motor coordinationMotor skillPersonal mobility

Abstract

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When approaching another individual, individuals maintain a protective zone (personal space) to ensure sufficient time for gait modifications. Although personal space dimensions are consistent in young adult literature, children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) may have inconsistencies in personal space due to difficulties with perception–action judgments. The purpose was to investigate personal space dimensions in children with and without DCD. Children with DCD ( N = 21, 10.32 [1.78] years, 15 males) and neurotypical controls ( N = 21, 10.01 [1.29] years, 11 males) completed a stop-distance task. Participants walked toward an object or pedestrian, at varying angles, and stopped when they felt that they were too close. Further, the pedestrian walked toward the stationary participant, at varying angles. Qualisys motion capture system (120 Hz) was used to record body position of the participant and the pedestrian. Regardless of group, children maintained a larger personal space distance when interacting with an object or pedestrian head-on compared to an angle ( p < .001). In both static, F (1, 40) = 4.15, p = .048, f = 0.10, and dynamic, F (1, 40) = 5.08, p = .03, f = 0.13, conditions involving a pedestrian, children with DCD maintained a larger personal space distance compared with neurotypical children. Findings from the study suggest that children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) maintain a larger personal space when interacting with another person, perhaps as a compensatory mechanism to accommodate for motor coordination difficulties.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.037
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it