Relationship between Measures of Body Fat and Gross Motor Proficiency.

摘要

The present study sought to determine the relationship between body fat and various components of gross motor proficiency. Ten tests of gross motor performance, previously shown by Fleishman to be reliable diagnostic indexes of nine separate gross motor factors, were administered to 56 students in the U.S. Naval School of Diving and Salvage. Six anthropometric indicators of body fat were also obtained from each student. Factor analyses confirmed the structure of the measures of physical proficiency and indicated the presence of a single dimension for body fatness. Tests of the relationships between body fatness and the components of physical proficiency revealed a selective effect where body fatness was significantly related to performance on only three of the nine component measures: dynamic strength, gross body coordination, and stamina. Controlling for subject age reduced the magnitude of the correlations by a slight degree, but did not otherwise after the relationships. (Author)