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RELATIONS BETWEEN VARIABLES OF FATTY TISSUE AND MOTOR ABILITIES OF GIRLS OF THE 5TH CLASS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The sample of 203 girls of the fi fth class of elementary school (11 years old + 6 months) was applied to the system of 15 variables of which 3 were morphological variables of fatty tissue and 12 variables of motor abilities. The aim of this research was to defi ne their relations and the data were processed by application of canonic correlation analysis. From the cross-correlation martix it is seen that between variables of fatty tissue and variables of motor abilities negative correlation prevails. By Bartlett’ s Hi-square test (χ 2) two pairs of statistically signifi cant canonic factors were obtained. The fi rst morphological canonic factor was interpreted as fatty tissue while the other one was not possible to be interpreted for poor informative values. In the area of motor abilities the fi rst canonic factor was interpreted as motor agility concerning the fact that its structure consists of body coordination variables, frequency of foot tapping against the wall, explosive strength of arms and legs and repetitive strength of body, and the second as whole body coordination and frequency of arm and leg motion. Concerning the fi rst pair of canonic factors results showed that there is negative correlation between fatty tissue and agility that is the fatty tissue of girls of this age deranges motor motion structures

girls; age of 11; fatty tissue; motor abilities; relations

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