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| Title: | Characteristics of Body Shape of Female Athletes Based on Factor Analysis |
| Authors: | Tsunawake, Noriaki
Tahara, Yasuaki
Yukawa, Koichi
Katsuura, Tetsuo
Harada, Hajime
Kikuchi, Yasuyuki |
| Issue Date: | Jan-1995 |
| Publisher: | 日本生理人類学会 |
| Citation: | Applied human science : journal of physiological anthropology. 1995, 14(1), p.55-61 |
| Abstract: | We examined the body shape of female athletes in comparison with female adult non-athletes by factor analysis. The subjects were 433 adult non-athletes and 464 athletes participating in 11 different sporting events. The physique, skinfold thickness and body composition of each subject were measured. The values obtained from non-athletes were analyzed by factor analysis, and the body shape of the athletes was then analyzed according to these factors. Four main factors with which 80 percent of total variance could be ex-plained were body fat (Factor 1), mass (Factor 2), Ieg length to height ratio (Factor 3) and length (Factor 4), and were extracted from the values from non-athletes. The body shape of the athletes could be classified into 4 categories by cluster analysis for factor score of sporting events: Iess body fat and slim type, average type like non-athletes, muscular and well-balanced type, and tall and well-developed mass. Compared with non-athletes, female athletes for all sporting events had less body fat. Moreover, the athletes had a body shape suitable for their sporting events; i. e., their mass, Iength of leg and height. |
| Keywords: | physique
body composition
body shape
female athlete
factor analysis |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10069/16860 |
| ISSN: | 13413473 |
| Relational Links: | http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110002508514/ |
| Rights: | 日本生理人類学会
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| Type: | Journal Article |
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