Correlations between the somatic parameters and motor skills of 17-19-year-old boys from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship

Szark-Eckardt Mirosława, Kuska Michalina, Żukowska Hanna, Pezala Małgorzata, Napierała Marek. Correlations between the somatic parameters and motor skills of 17-19-year-old boys from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(11):492-509. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1985201 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6353 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/890137 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.11.2018. Revised: 25.11.2018. Accepted: 30.11.2018. Correlations between the somatic parameters and motor skills of 17-19-year-old boys from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship Mirosława Szark-EckardtA-F, Michalina Kuska-A,B,D, Hanna Żukowska A,B,D, Małgorzata PezalaB,D, Marek NapierałaA-F Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz A – Research concept and design, B – Collection and/or assembly of data, C – Data analysis and interpretation, D – Writing the article, E – Critical revision of the article, F – Final approval of article Address for correspondence: Mirosława Szark-Eckardt, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, the Institute of Physical Education, 2 Sportowa Str., 85-091 Bydgoszcz, tel. 52 32 31 706 e-mail: szark@ukw.edu.pl Abstract Introduction and purpose of the study: Physical activity is the key element of a healthy lifestyle. It is hard to associate it only with meeting the biological needs (Osiński, 1996). As hypokinesis is growing with age, it is becoming the cause of regress observed in physical fitness and efficiency of young generations (Woynarowska, 2008). The purpose of the study was to illustrate the condition of somatic development and motor skills in 17-19-year-old boys from the rural and urban areas of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship. The correlations between the studied somatic characteristics and motor skills considering the age of respondents were identified using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Material and methods: The study involved 1,147 boys aged 17-19 years from the areas of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship in 2015. The research was diagnostic and cross-sectional (transversal) in nature. The somatic parameters (body height and weight) were calculated in accordance with the guidelines adopted in anthropology whereas motor skills by means of MTSF. The correlations between the studied measurable parameters were identified by estimating the Pearson linear correlation coefficient. The study results were shown in the tabular and descriptive form. Results: The study revealed linear correlations between the somatic parameters and some motor skills in all age groups of boys (17-19 years). Conclusions: In order to establish the strategic directions for the changes concerning the condition of physical fitness, a detailed diagnosis of the current state is required that will help the school work of physical education teachers who can control different elements of biological development of their students in a better and more efficient way. Key words: motor skills, hypokinesia, physical fitnes