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Relationship between kinantropometric characteristics of preschool children and the level of the physical activity of their parents

The aim of this research was to determine the relationship between the kinanthropometric characteristics of preschool children with the level of physical activity of their parents. The research was conducted on a sample of 83 preschool children in the fourth, fifth, and sixth year of life enrolled in four educational groups in the kindergarten “Čavlić.” The children were measured in the area of morphological characteristics according to two values (ATV – body height, ATT –weight) and one derived measure (BMI – body mass index), in the area of motor abilities through six tests (SJED – sit down with right angle between legs, PK – load run, TRB – abdominal exercise 15 and 30 sec, HOD –walk backwards on all fours, VIS – pull up endurance, SKOK – standing long jump), and in the area of functional capabilities through a single test (POLIGON3 – polygon 3 min). The children’s parents filled out the Baeck questionnaire about the level of their physical activity with four defined indices: work index, exercise intensity index, sports index, and free time index. Regarding the mothers’ and fathers’ indices, the kinanthropometric analysis of children’s characteristics provided a statistically significant correlation only in the criteria of the mothers’ free time index, and for this reason we can partially confirm the hypothesis which states that the children of physically more active mothers have better kinanthropometric characteristics, or that they will show better results in morphological characteristics, as well as motor and functional abilities.

kinanthropometric characteristic, preschool children, physical activity, parents, free time

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