This study intended to assess the body types of high school girls.
The author selected the school health charts of 1, 105 high school girls on the 2nd grade in Kyung-ju city and reviewed them that shown the continued physical status per each person from its grade of elementary school (Average age 6 to 16).
The body types were chassified into four types on the basis of Rohrer index by age, which were provided by the Research Institute of Physical Education, Seoul National University.
The types were A(Under weight), B(Normal weight), C(Gradually over weight), D(Over weight) type according to Rohrer index.
By the referenced Rohrer index, the following things is appeared as conclusion.
Rohrer index showed that decreased until 11 years old below age group and thereafter
increased with age, but at 15 years old age group, it is decreased little bit.
In the distribution of body types by each age group, normal weight of body types showed
the highest frequency at the time of 7 years old as total 70.8%.
Over weight of body types showed the highest frequency at 12 years old as total 23.4%. Under weight of body types showed the highest frequency at 15 years old as total 44.3%. In the changing pattern of body types with age, the percentage agreement of body types
from 6 years old to 11 years old was lower than that from 11 years old to 16 years old. This percentage is 51.4% and that is 56.7%.
The percentage that the same body type to Rohrer index had been performed is 28.4% only from 6 years old to 16 years old.
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