DEVELOPMENT OF ALL ABOUT ME, A SCALE THAT MEASURES CHILDRENS PERCEIVED MOTOR COMPETENCE

All About Me was developed in response to the concern of pediatric occ upational therapists that existing measures of self-concept tend to fo cus on children older than 8 years of age and include very few items t hat measure physical competence. This instrument evaluates young child ren's perception of their self-efficacy in the performance of fine and gross motor activities that they encounter daily. Designed for use by pediatric therapists working with primary school children, it is a di scriminative assessment that can be used to identify children who perc eive themselves to be less competent motorically or to measure and enc ourage discussion of self-efficacy in children who have been identifie d as having motor difficulties. In this article, All About Me is descr ibed, and the results are reported of two studies that have pilot-test ed the developmental edition. Preliminary evidence indicates that All About Me has adequate to good levels of construct, content, and concur rent validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability, and may be a useful tool for both discriminative and descriptive purposes.