Nevenka Zrnzevic¹, Jelica Stojanovic²

¹Učiteljski fakultet, Leposavić
²Nezavisni istraživač

THE MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHOOLGIRLS AT EARLY SCHOOL AGE

MORFOLOŠKE KARAKTERISTIKE UČENICA MLAĐEG ŠKOLSKOG UZRASTA

Sport Mont 2010, VII(21-22), 214-221

Abstract

The aim of research was to establish eventual differences in some morphological characteristics between schoolgirls from the first, second and third grade of elementary school. Morphological characteristics were estimated according to three variables (body height, body weight and body mass index). Research on the morphological characteristics was conducted on a sample of 254 examinated schoolgirls (78 first grade schoolgirls, 79 second grade schoolgirls and 97 third grade schoolgirls) wich were attending regular classes and where the teaching process was observed and performed by the school teacher. This research utilised transversal model of research. The obtained results were statistically processed by means of descriptive statistics and graphically displayed. In further data processing the following procedures were applied: multivariant analysis of variance (with univariant analysis of the variance), discriminative analysis, testing the homogenous quality of groups and determination of the distance between groups. The results of the research showed that, viewing from the aspect of morphological characteristics, there are differences between schoolgirls from the first, second and third grade of elementary school and they are statistically significant.

Keywords

schoolgirls, morphological characteristics, multivariant analysis, univariant analysis, discriminative analysis

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