Original scientific paper
Relation Between Morphological Characteristics and Motor Skillsin Eleven-Year Old Male Pupils
Lidija Vlahović
orcid.org/0000-0003-2551-1555
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Bojan Babin
orcid.org/0000-0003-1201-7013
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
The research was conducted with the aim of determining relations between morphological characteristics and motor skills of representative teaching topics determined by the Physical Education official curriculum for elementary school fifth grade male pupils. According to the facts previously mentioned, sixteen anthropological measures for evaluation of morphological characteristics, and seven tests of representative teaching topics used in evaluation of motor skills have been applied on the sample of 152 male pupils. The results of canonical correlation analysis conducted on the systems of morphological variables and motor skills variables showed that one pair of statistically significant canonical factors with the 0.61 (p = 0.00) canonical correlation coefficient was singled out. The relation structure of isolated significant pair of canonical factor showed that pupils who achieved better results in motor skills tests Fast running (60 m) from low start, High jump (scissors technique) and Handstand against vertical surface demonstrated increased values in Body weight and Elbow diameter, as well as lower values in Forearm circumference, Arm length, Abdominal skin fold, and Lower leg skin fold. The redundancy results indicated that it is possible to evaluate only 19.55% of group variance of morphological characteristics variables, using a group of morphological characteristics variables and vice versa: that 17.3% of group variance of motor skills variables can be evaluated by using a group of motor characteristics variables. The obtained results showed that pupils of mesomorph body type performed better in motor skills tests.
Keywords
anthropometric characteristics; motor learning; physical education; fifth grade pupils
Hrčak ID:
216728
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2018.
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