Index evaluation of physical development of students
The article presents materials of a comparative study between index estimates of the physical development of
students between two ethnic groups. Physical development is one of the most important indicators of the
health not only for the young generation, but also for the whole population. The indices of physical develop-
ment represent the ratios of individual anthropometric characteristics, which allows them to be used for a
rough assessment of physical development in the course of mass surveys
of the population, as well as for ana-
lyzing the influence of various environmental factors on the body. During the study 336 girls, aged 17 to
20 years, studying at Kostanay State Pedagogical University, are participated. The studies were conducted in
accordance with bioethical rules. All studies were conducted in inter-sessional period, in the first half of the
day. Depending on nationality, the respondents were divided into two groups: the first group —
students of
Kazakh nationality, the second group — students of Slavic nationalities. The studied groups identified the
main anthropometric (heihth, body weight, chest circumference), physiometric parameters (vital capacity of
the lungs, hand strength, blood pressure), anthropometric (Quetelet, Pigne, Manouvrier) and functional
indi-
ces (Robinson, Skibinsky, life and dynamometric indices). In the studied groups, significant differences were
revealed in the main anthropometric indicators, the characteristics of the Manouvrier index, and
the index of
life. The revealed excess of the average group indicators of the girl students of the second group is due to the
genetic predisposition of the morphological and functional characteristics of the organism.
Keywords: students, physical development, ethnic groups, anthropometric indicators, Manouvrier index, the
index of life.
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