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This descriptive and correlational research was conducted with 93 Iranian rural primary school children aged 8 to 10 years. A Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) questionnaire and the Test of Gross Motor Development, second edition (TGMD-2) were used to collect data on executive functions and gross motor skills, respectively. The results showed that most of the correlations between criterion and predictor variables were moderate. In the regression results we observed that among the components of executive functions, inhibition, working memory, planning\/organizing, and organization had a significant relationship with gross motor skills, but no relationship was found between other components and motor skills. As a result, it can be said that in predicting cognitive development and specifically mentioned executive functions, gross motor skills are an important and effective factor among rural children and, given the importance of cognitive development and executive functions in childhood, it seems that by helping to develop their gross motor skills, executive functions will also be strengthened. Finally, possible future studies are addressed, which could investigate the effect of different aspects of motor skill classifications on executive functions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/healthcare10040616","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,25]],"date-time":"2022-03-25T15:31:21Z","timestamp":1648222281000},"page":"616","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["The Relationship between Executive Functions and Gross Motor Skills in Rural Children Aged 8\u201310 Years"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Zahra","family":"Fathirezaie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3023-3190","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"S\u00e9rgio","family":"Matos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politecnico de Viana do castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun Alvares, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal"},{"name":"Research Center in Sports Performance, Recreation, Innovation and Technology (SPRINT), 4960-320 Melga\u00e7o, Portugal"},{"name":"Department of Sports, Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of the Douro, 4560-708 Penafiel, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Elham","family":"Khodadadeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9813-2842","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Filipe Manuel","family":"Clemente","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Sports Performance, Recreation, Innovation and Technology (SPRINT), 4960-320 Melga\u00e7o, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Delegacao da Covilha, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4100-8765","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Georgian","family":"Badicu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Bra\u015fov, 500068 Bra\u015fov, Romania"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1772-1272","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana Filipa","family":"Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politecnico de Viana do castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun Alvares, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal"},{"name":"Research Center in Sports Performance, Recreation, Innovation and Technology (SPRINT), 4960-320 Melga\u00e7o, Portugal"},{"name":"The Research Centre in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD), 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7276-5289","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seyed Hojjat","family":"Zamani Sani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666, Iran"}]},{"given":"Samaneh","family":"Nahravani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666, Iran"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"125","DOI":"10.3102\/0034654317743200","article-title":"The Classroom as a Developmental Context for Cognitive Development: A Meta-Analysis on the Importance of Teacher\u2013Student Interactions for Children\u2019s Executive Functions","volume":"88","author":"Vandenbroucke","year":"2018","journal-title":"Rev. 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