Motor Fitness of 10–17 Year-Old Students from Selected Regions of Japan and Poland
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2008, Vol 17, Issue 41
Abstract
The aim of the work. The aim of this work is to examine the state and structure of youth motor fitness from the Upper Silesia and Nara regions (taking the three-factor Baltes’s model into consideration).Material and methods. The material was gathered in 2000, within the framework of international research work called “Motorische Entwicklung in der Lebensspanne”, which was coordinated by the Universities of Heidelberg and Nara. The research was carried out among 1873 boys and girls from the Upper Silesia region, those between the ages of 10–17 and also among 1865 of their equals from Nara region. The empirical material was elaborated by the methods of descriptive statistics. Profiles of motor fitness were defined and the analysis of variance was put into practice with double classification, completed with the post hoc analysis (the RIR Tukey test).Results. Motor profiles show that students from the Nara region surpass their equals from the Upper Silesia region in all the motor abilities. Japan–Poland cultural affiliation was indeed a factor that differentiated girls and boys from the Upper Silesia and Nara regions in all the motor tests. Their age had an essential statistical influence on results concerning speed, explosive strength, endurance, coordination under time pressure and flexibility amongst both populations of girls and boys that were examined. Japanese boys achieved better scores in speed, explosive strength, endurance, coordination under pressure for precision and coordination under time pressure in all age groups. Girls from the Upper Silesia region achieved essentially better results than their equals from the Nara region only in speed at the ages of 16 and 17, additionally flexibility at the age of 17.
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Dariusz Pośpiech , Beata Juras , Joachim Raczek
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