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'Stupar D, Romanov R, Beretić I, 2025: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES
AND MANIFESTATION OF COORDINATION
IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN. Anthropologie (Brno) 63, 3: 145-151'. |
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| Abstract | | To investigate the connection between body measurements and the development of motor coordination in
preschool-aged children, 77 children (54 boys, 23 girls) with an average age of 5.71±0.54 years were measured and
tested. The study involved 9 tests to assess body measurements, which were used as predictive variables. Additionally,
four tests from the KTK battery were used to evaluate motor skills and coordination. The data was analysed using
descriptive and regression analyses. The average values of coordination (KTK) significantly positively correlated with
anthropometric variable of body height (BH, r = 0.259, p = 0.013), and significantly negatively correlated with variables
of abdominal skin fold (ASF, r = -0.209, p = 0.037), dorsal skinfold (DSF, r = -0.282, p = 0.007) and uper arm skin fold
(UASF, r = -0.244, p = 0.018). The results of the regression analysis (backward method) showed that the model that best
explains the variability of the dependent variable was defined by folloving variables: forearm circumferences (FCIRC),
dorsal skinfold (DSF) and upper arm skin fold (UASF) with 23.4% of explained variance. Additionally, the results
suggest that children between the ages of 5 and 7 who possess greater forearm circumferences, lower dorsal skinfold,
and upper arm skinfold have better coordination abilities. | | | | Keywords | | Anthropometric measures – Motor abilities – Preschool age – Coordination | | | | DOI | | https://doi.org/10.26720/anthro.25.09.12.2 | | |
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