ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA
Introduction: The somatotype is a method for complex evaluation of human body structure and shape on basis 10 anthropomorphic indexes. Objective: The present analysis is part of the research of adolescents’ physical development at the age of 11 – 14 in Plovdiv and it aims to analyze and evaluate t...
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| description | Introduction: The somatotype is a method for complex evaluation of human body structure and shape on basis 10 anthropomorphic indexes.
Objective: The present analysis is part of the research of adolescents’ physical development at the age of 11 – 14 in Plovdiv and it aims to analyze and evaluate their somatotype depending on sex and age.
Materials and methods: a method for somatotype determination after The Heath -Carter method and mathematical-statistical methods have been applied (Pearson non-parametric test, dispersion analysis Oneway – ANOVA test). The results have been processed with SPSS Statistics v.19 program package.
Results: Somatotype changes for adolescents and for the 11 and 12 years old endomorphic somatotype is predominant, respectively 32 (40 %) and 34 (39.1 %). The greatest change in somatotype comes at the age of 14. The biggest share here is for ectomorphic 18 (48.6 %), and the smallest share is for endomorphic somatotype 6 (16.2 %). It has been established a statistically significant variance in both group age 11 – 12 and 13 – 14 somatotype, respectively for the boys (χ2 = 9.29; df = 2; p = 0.01), but there is no similar correlation for the girls (χ2 = 0.65; df = 2; p = 0.72).
Conclusion: The boys are more athletic especially for the age 13 – 14 years old in comparison to the girls where endomorphic somatotype is predominant for both age groups – they have more developed adipose tissue, but less developed muscle mass. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17fa394edfce492b89febb6d26ed7fca2022-12-22T00:01:34ZengPeytchinski PublishingJournal of IMAB1312-773X2020-03-012613005301010.5272/jimab.2020261.3005ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIAGergana Petrova0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5265-786XDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.Introduction: The somatotype is a method for complex evaluation of human body structure and shape on basis 10 anthropomorphic indexes. Objective: The present analysis is part of the research of adolescents’ physical development at the age of 11 – 14 in Plovdiv and it aims to analyze and evaluate their somatotype depending on sex and age. Materials and methods: a method for somatotype determination after The Heath -Carter method and mathematical-statistical methods have been applied (Pearson non-parametric test, dispersion analysis Oneway – ANOVA test). The results have been processed with SPSS Statistics v.19 program package. Results: Somatotype changes for adolescents and for the 11 and 12 years old endomorphic somatotype is predominant, respectively 32 (40 %) and 34 (39.1 %). The greatest change in somatotype comes at the age of 14. The biggest share here is for ectomorphic 18 (48.6 %), and the smallest share is for endomorphic somatotype 6 (16.2 %). It has been established a statistically significant variance in both group age 11 – 12 and 13 – 14 somatotype, respectively for the boys (χ2 = 9.29; df = 2; p = 0.01), but there is no similar correlation for the girls (χ2 = 0.65; df = 2; p = 0.72). Conclusion: The boys are more athletic especially for the age 13 – 14 years old in comparison to the girls where endomorphic somatotype is predominant for both age groups – they have more developed adipose tissue, but less developed muscle mass.https://www.journal-imab-bg.org/issues-2020/issue1/JofIMAB-2020-26-1p3005-3010.pdfsomatotypeadolescentsphysical development |
| spellingShingle | Gergana Petrova ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA Journal of IMAB somatotype adolescents physical development |
| title | ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA |
| title_full | ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA |
| title_fullStr | ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA |
| title_full_unstemmed | ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA |
| title_short | ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA |
| title_sort | analysis of adolescents 11 14 years old somatotype in plovdiv bulgaria |
| topic | somatotype adolescents physical development |
| url | https://www.journal-imab-bg.org/issues-2020/issue1/JofIMAB-2020-26-1p3005-3010.pdf |
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