Relations of Anthropometric and Conative (Normal and Pathological) Dimensions of Volleyball Junior Players
The main objective of this transversal study was to examine the relation of morphological and conative characteristics (normal and pathologic) factors in volleyball junior players. The data were collected on the sample of examinees (N = 126), aged 16 to 17 years from five volleyball clubs. The applied measuring instruments consisted of 23 anthropometric measures, 16 normal and 12 pathological conative variables. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and canonical correlation analysis were applied for data processing. The results showed that among the set of anthropometric characteristics and set of normal conative dimensions, with 51% of explained variance, there is a statistically significant canonical correlation of high level (Rc =.77, p < .05), whereas among the set of normal and pathological conative dimensions, with the interpreted variability of 59%, two significant correlations of average intensity (Rc = 73, p < .01, and Rc = .70, p <.05) were defined. Following relevant canonical factors were isolated: I) morphological ectomesomorfic factors (longitudinal dimensionality of the skeleton and transversal dimensionality of the skeleton), II) normal conative factors (extraversionintroversion and anxiety, intelligence, self-awareness, courage, a sharp temper and protension; introspection and insighthonesty) and III) pathological conative factors (performance of systems for regulating and monitoring the biological functions and automatic functions and editing of responses of defense and attack). The structure of the relations between anthropometric characteristics and conative (normal and pathological) latent dimensions was presented for a probability level of 0.05.
