Sport Mont (Mar 2011)

STRUCTURE OF MORPHOLOGICAL SPACE SCHOOL CHILDREN

  • Ratko Pavlović,
  • Nataša Branković,
  • Aleksandar Raković

Journal volume & issue
Vol. VIII, no. 25-26-27
pp. 266 – 273

Abstract

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According a previos knowledge about a polidimensional structure of morphological space of human body, with possibility variation of number of latent dimensions, this research was made with the goal confirmation of polidimensional structure anthropometric characteristics fifteen years old pupils. The factor analysis extracted two main components from 18 manifest morphological variables. On this way it was confirmed that morphological structure of children and adults is unequal. There is assumption, the intensive process of growth of children is main reason of unequal structure. Also, this characteristic is elementary difference between children and adults.

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