Showing papers by "Kirk J. Cureton published in 1975"

Relationship between Body Composition Measures and AAHPER Test Performances in Young Boys.

Abstract: Relationships between total body density, total body potassium, skinfold thickness measurements and aahper Youth Fitness Test performances were determined on 49 prepubescent boys, 8 to 11 yr of age. Zero-order correlations between body composition measures and performance scores were low or moderate; however, using multiple regression analysis it was found that body composition measures significantly (p < .05) increased the variance accounted for above that explained by age, height, and weight in predicting all performance items except sit-ups. In general, body density, body potassium, and skinfold thickness predicted performances equally well when age, height, and weight were held constant. A canonical correlation analysis of the relation between the aahper Test items and the physical development variables demonstrated that there was a large proportion of common variance between the two sets of variables and significant relationships existed along two independent dimensions. It was concluded tha...