Comparison of Anthropometric Measurements in 12-14 Age Group Male and Female Athletes and Sedentary Individuals

KENAN ERDAĞI

KENAN ERDAĞI, Bülent Işık, Ayşe Nur MORBEL KAYNAK

Year : 2024
Vol : 2
No : 2
Page : 157-177

Development is a lifelong process involving prospective and systematic changes in physical, cognitive, emotional, social and motor skills of individuals. This process accelerates during critical periods such as the transition from childhood to adolescence, as well as growth and maturation. Adolescence is a dynamic period of transition from childhood to young adulthood, characterized by rapid physical growth and development. Individual's developmental process varies. Anthropometric measurements performed during this period provide important data for monitoring the changes in the body structure of individuals and evaluating the performance capacity of young athletes. In this study, it was aimed to investigate various anthropometric characteristics such as upper and lower extremity lengths, circumference and width of male and female students aged 12-14 years, who were involved in sports and who were not involved in sports. The frequency, ratio, mean and standard deviation of the individuals in the groups according to the variables were evaluated with descriptive statistics. Normality of the data was tested with skewness and kurtosis values. Independent groups t test was used for intergroup comparisons and paired groups t test was used for intra-group comparisons, and the significance level was determined as p <0.05. Analyses were performed using SPSS 25 software. No significant difference was observed between female athlete and sedentary groups in terms of length, circumference and width measurements (p > 0.05). Significant differences were found between the male athlete and sedentary groups in the measurements of right and left upper leg length, right upper arm circumference and left ankle width (p < 0.05), while no significant differences were found in the other measurements (p > 0.05). In conclusion, this study shows that there is no significant difference in anthropometric measurements between 12-14 age group female athletes and sedentaries, but there are differences in some measurements between male athletes and sedentaries.

Cite this Article As : Morbel Kaynak, A. N., Erdağı, K., & Işık, B. (2024). 12-14 yaş grubu kadın ve erkek sporcular ile sedanter bireylerde antropometrik ölçümlerin karşılaştırılması. Edutech Research, 2(2), 157-177.

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Comparison of Anthropometric Measurements in 12-14 Age Group Male and Female Athletes and Sedentary Individuals, Research Article,
2024, Vol. 2 (2)

Received : 23.09.2024, Accepted : 13.12.2024 , Published Online : 06.01.2025