ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTOR ABILITIES IN 13-15 YEARS OLD FEMALE VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

The goal of this research was to determine whether there is a difference in themanifestation of measured anthropometric characteristics and tested motor abilities offemale volleyball players that are 13-15 years old. The sample of participants consists of 62female volleyball players divided into three groups according to their age. The sample ofvariables has two sub-samples: 18 variables belonging to anthropometric space and 14variables belonging to the space of motor skills. A variance analysis has indicatedsignificant intragroup differences in all the analyzed variables, except the variable forassessment of flexibility in the shoulder angle region. The results of a post hoc test - theBoniferroni procedure - have determined that the level of differences between the groups, inrelation to the examined variables, ranges from those that have statistical significance ofp<0,05, for variables of anthropometric space (Body weight, arm span, Body mass index,the Single arm reach test, Both arm reach test, Upper arm and forearm volume) and thesame value for the motor skills space (Hip joint flexibility, Squat jump with arm swing,Counter-movement jump with, and without the arm swing), to those that reach p<0,00 forvariables of the anthropometric space (Sitting height, Body mass, Chest Volume , Waistvolume, Hips, Upper leg, and Lower leg volume) and for variables of the space of motorskills (the Long jump, Medicine ball throw, “Sit and reach” test, the 5,15 and 20 meter run,T-test, Squat jump without arm swing and Squat jump with arms in the block position).Because the applied instruments validate the assumption that these instruments can be usedto isolate dimensions in experimental sample, and because these dimensions are significantfor success in a motor activity such as volleyball, the results of this research will have broadapplication, and thus are of both theoretical and practical importance