Kinesiology, Vol. 10 No. 3., 1980.
Original scientific paper
Factor structure of anthropometric variables after the partialization of sociological characteristics
Ankica Hošek
; Faculty of Physical Education, University of Zagreb
Milutin Stojanović
; Faculty of Physical Education, University of Belgrade
Konstantin Momirović
; University Computing Centre, Zagreb
Marijan Gredelj
; University Computing Centre, Zagreb
Rajko Vukosavljević
; Military Medical Academy, Belgrade
Abstract
The latent structure of morphological characteristics was analyzed after the partialization of sociological characteristics which describe the position of subjects in socialization, institutional and sanction subsystem. The results of that analysis have been compared with the results of the analysis of the latent structure of morphological characteristics acquire on the original measures of morphological characteristics. In both analyses the measures of morphological characteristics were re-scaled to anti-image metrics, while latent dimensions were defined by orthoblique factors.
The latent structure of morphological characteristics has remained practically completely unchanged after the partialization of sociological characteristics. Three factors, which could be interpreted as circular dimensionality of the body, longitudinal dimensionality of the skeleton and fatty tissue, were acquired in both analyses. Correlations between these dimensions acquired in the carried out analyses were very high, and the congruencies of coordinate systems acquired in these analyses practically complete.
Hence, although the morphological characteristics in non-zero correlations with sociological characteristics, exogenic factors defined by social and economic status have almost no influence on the pattern and structure of latent morphological characteristics.
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241230
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Publication date:
1.4.1980.
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