The aim of this integrative review was to provide a synthesis of existing evidence on the impact of early childhood educators’ (ECEs) personal health and wellness on their ability to model, engage, and interact with children in developing physical literacy (PL). Electronic databases searched included PubMed, APA PsycInfo, EMBASE, Public Health Database, and Scopus, and a search of grey literature, Google Scholar web browser, and a manual search of study references was also undertaken. The review was guided by the frameworks of Torraco (Resour Dev Rev 4(3):356–367, 2005; Hum Resour Dev Rev 15(4):404–428, 2016) and Whittemore and Knafl (J Adv Nurs 52(5):546–553, 2005) to systematically extract, analyze, and synthesize data from the literature and organize key patterns into new concepts. The three major themes identified as influential elements in engaging children to adopt PL relate to ECEs’ personal physical activity with respect to their confidence, their role modeling capabilities, and their physical ability to engage the children they work with. Despite limited available research on ECEs’ personal health and wellness and their ability to engage children in developing PL, it was determined that ECEs’ interest in physical activity (PA) and level of commitment to their health and wellness contribute to their confidence levels, their role modeling capabilities, and their level of engagement with the children they work with.

这项综合性综述的目的是提供有关幼儿教育者（ECE）个人健康和健康对他们建立儿童读写能力，与儿童互动以及与他们互动的能力的影响的现有证据的综合。搜索的电子数据库包括PubMed，APA PsycInfo，EMBASE，公共卫生数据库和Scopus，还搜索了灰色文献，Google Scholar网络浏览器，还进行了人工研究参考文献的搜索。该审查由Torraco（Resour Dev Rev 4（3）：356–367，2005; Hum Resour Dev Rev 15（4）：404–428，2016）和Whittemore和Knafl（J Adv Nurs 52（5） ）：546-553，2005）从文献中系统地提取，分析和综合数据，并将关键模式组织成新概念。被确定为促使儿童接受PL的三个主要主题与ECE的个人体育活动有关，包括他们的自信心，榜样能力以及他们与所工作的儿童交往的身体能力。尽管关于儿童早期教育者的个人健康和保健及其吸引儿童参与发展PL的能力的研究有限，但可以确定的是，儿童早期教育者对体育锻炼的兴趣以及对他们的健康和保健的承诺水平有助于他们的自信心水平，角色建模能力，以及他们与所工作的孩子互动的程度。