Secular trends in somatic and motor characteristics of physical education students

American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council
Albrecht L Claessens, Johan Lefevre

Abstract

This study investigated changes in somatic and motor characteristics of 3,514 physical education students at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) from the academic years 1941-1942 to 1988-1989. To facilitate data handling, the span of 47 years was divided into nine cohorts for anthropometric variables, and 4 cohorts for the motor data which were available only since the 1968-1969 academic year. A total of 21 anthropometric variables (since 1959) and 9 motor performance tests (since 1968) are included in the analysis. Descriptive statistics were calculated for all variables and for each cohort, and analyses of variance were done to test the significance of secular trends. For weight and length dimensions a significant increase was noted; current students are, on average, 4.2 kg heavier and 5.8 cm taller than those in 1941-1946. In contrast, however, there is no change and even a negative trend in circumferences and breadth dimensions. Current students had, on average, significantly narrower shoulders and hips by 0.5 cm and 1.0 cm for biacromial and bicristal breadths, respectively, than students in the 1959-1963 cohort, and a significantly smaller hip circumference by 3.3 cm between the 1959-1963 and 1984-1988 cohorts. C...Continue Reading

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