Original scientific paper

A contribution to the knowledge of latent structure of morphological characteristics in young women

Emil Hofman ; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Ankica Hošek ; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Abstract

33 anthropometric measures were taken on a a sample of 308 female subjects aged 19 to 27. The sample was selected from a population of persons interested in participating in polemologic activities. The investigation was undertaken with the aim to check the hypothesis on existence of the 5-dimensional morphological model with the application of canonical factor analysis. Within the hypothesis on the 5-dimensional model, two problems were considered separately which, however, have been initiated earlier ; the first dealt with the existence of gynomorphic and andromorphic body build in women, and the second with differentiation of subcutaneous fat tissue on the trunk as opposed to the extremities. The results had only partly solved the stated problems. The 5-dimensional space proved sufficient to explain the greatest part of variability of morphological variables and it resulted in 5 well-defined and interpretable factors, even though they were different from dimensions thus far isolated in the 4-dimensional component model. The first factor was explained as volume of the body related to above-average amount of subcutaneous fat tissue; the second as subcutaneous fat tissue on the extremities; the third as longitudinal dimensionality of the skeleton; the fourth as volume of the body related to above-average amount of muscle tissue and fifth as subcutaneous fat tissue on the trunk. Therefor, only the second problem is solved by the structure of the second and fifth factors while the hypothesis on the andromorphic and gynomorphic body build remained justified, but is still on the level of hypothesis, which can be suspected from the structure of the first and fourth factors.

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Hrčak ID:

232237

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/232237

Publication date:

1.9.1985.

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