Milan Pantovic¹, Jelena Obradovic¹, Maja Batez¹, Goran Dimitric¹, Marko Jadranski¹

¹Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Novi Sad

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC AND MOTORICAL ABILITIES OF PRESCHOOL BOYS

RAST I RAZVOJ ANTROPOMETRIJSKIH KARAKTERISTIKA I MOTORIČKIH SPOSOBNOSTI DEČAKA PREDŠKOLSKOG UZRASTA

Sport Mont 2012, X(34-35-36), 116-123

Abstract

On sample of 613 boys, aged 4-7 years, was used battery of 8 anthropometric measures and 6 motorical tests. By using univariate and multivariate analysis of variance followed by t test for independent samples was found significant difference between boys of different age groups defined by one year. The analysis of the obtained results in anthropometric variables perceived increase in the values of all observed variables with age. The results of motorical variables indicate that older subjects were more successful in performance of given tests in relation to the middle and younger groups of subjects. Analyzing Canonical discriminant analyses qualitative differences were found in groups of subjects of different ages. Highest discriminating value of subjects in area of motorical variables had fallowing variables: 20m dash, jump forward, taping, sit-ups, and polygon backwards. It may be noted that the subjects of the third (oldest) group were more successful in motorical tests. The second (middle) group of subjects was in the middle compared to the analyzed sample. Also, higher values were observed in the results of body height in older subjects compared to the other two analyzed groups respectively.

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