Relationship between reactive agility, cognitive abilities, and intelligence in adolescents

Abstract

The work identifies differences in performance levels and the relationship between reactive agility, intelligence and cognitive abilities in adolescents (boys vs girls). The differences in performance levels were compared separately for boys and girls. The research was conducted at the grammar school, where 100 respondents were tested (Nb59 + Ng41=N100). To determine the level of variables, we used the Inborn Intelligence Test (TIP Test), the Cognitive Capability Test (Stroop test), the Reactive Agility Test (Y test). The results showed that statistically significant differences between boys and girls were found only in the case of reactive agility (sig = 0.003 *). We found higher values in boys than in girls, when assessing differences in cognitive abilities between the two genders, but not statistically significant (sig = 0.447). The correlation analysis did not confirm a statistically significant relationship between reaction agility and cognitive abilities (ρ =-0.124). There were no statistically significant relationship between these indicators in adolescents. In the case of finding the relationship between variables, we found dependence only in the case of intelligence and reactive agility (r = 0.666). We reached no statistically significant relationship between the variables (ρ =-0.021) when determining the relationship between intelligence and cognitive abilities. We note that there was a significant relationship between these indicators in adolescents (r = 0.021). In the case of the exclusion of motor functions (reactive agility), we did not observe the dependence of variables. We assume that in the non-sporting adolescent population these abilities are not sufficiently developed to justify their conditionality.