Barely Significant

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A decreasing trend in the physical activity level is in fact characterizing the present unsustainable lifestyle of large strata of the western population, also because individualized dieting and exercise programs implemented within public health interventions have not always succeeded in reaching their targets (see for example Catenacci et al., 2009 ).
Previous studies have shown that age, intervention duration, and intervention frequency may be significant factors associated with the effect of gross movement interventions on children’s physical fitness ( Pozuelo-Carrascosa et al., 2018 ; Utesch et al., 2019 ; Godoy-Cumillaf et al., 2020 ; Wu et al., 2021 ).
The relationship with the Anxiety scale was statistically significant in the zero-order and partial correlations, and in the t -test, but only marginally significant in the ANCOVAs (although caution should be applied when discussing marginal significance; see Pritschet et al., 2016 ).
Regarding changes in attitude according to type of reading (Grade × Type of reading interaction), in our study among pupils from Grades 5 to 8, we found more positive attitudes toward leisure reading than toward academic reading, even though there was a negative trend in attitudes toward both types of reading across grades, in line with previous studies among elementary or middle/secondary school pupils ( McKenna et al., 1995 , 2012 ).