Relationships among Body Composition, Skeletal Development and Balance in Preschool Children

• Main Authors: Huang Teng-Ching, 黃騰慶
• Other Authors: Huang Yi-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e574js

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 運動保健研究所 === 99 === 　　The aim of this study is to discuss the influences on preschool children’s static and dynamic balance ability with different background variables, body composition and skeletal development, as well as to analyze the difference and relevant level among variables in preschool children’s growth for a period of four months. The approach is using 108 preschool children (at age 5.62±0.56) as the study subject; we measure the preschool children’s height, weight, body fat ratio and their feet’s length and width, and then carry out the static (stand on one leg with eye closed) and dynamic (walk on the balance beam) balance test for them; we redo the test again four months later, then carry out the t test and correlation analysis and find the significant difference level is α =.05. The results we discover are as following: for the background variables: female preschool children have better static balance and older preschool children have better dynamic balance; for the body composition: preschool children with heavier weigh and higher BMI have better dynamic balance; for the skeletal development: preschool children with higher height and larger feet and hands have better dynamic balance; after four months, the preschool children have significant growth on their body composition and skeletal development, and both their static and dynamic balance have significant improvement. The conclusion of this study is as following: preschool children’s body composition and skeletal development have significant growth in the period of four months, and their dynamic balances have significant improvement while their static balance does not have significant improvement. These study results can be used as references for the related balance study in the future.