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NR 57 ANT ROP OM OT OR YK A 2012 ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND PHYSICAL FITNESS OF RURAL BOYS FROM LUBLIN REGION ANTROPOLOGICZNA OCENA WPŁYWU CZYNNIKÓW SOCJOEKONOMICZNYCH NA ROZWÓJ I SPRAWNOŚĆ FIZYCZNĄ CHŁOPCÓW WIEJSKICH Z LUBELSZCZYZNY Helena Popławska*, Krystyna Buchta*, Agnieszka Dmitruk* * PhD, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport in Biała Podlaska; Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland Key words: boys, socio-economic conditions, body height, body mass, BMI, motor abilities, time changes Słowa kluczowe: chłopcy, warunki socjoekonomiczne, wysokość ciała, masa ciała, BMI, zdolności motoryczne, zmiany czasowe - - - - - SUMMARY • STRESZCZENIE Aim of the study. The aim of the work was to evaluate changes of the influence of family socio-economic factors on the level of the somatic development and motor fitness of rural boys from Lublin region in the years 1998–2007. Material and methods. The research included 547 boys in 1998 and 484 boys in 2007 in selected categories of boys aged 10–11, 14–15, and 17–18 years. Physical development of the subjects was evaluated on the basis of body height and mass measurements, which were then used to calculate BMI. Motor fitness was defined with the use of Eurofit tests. Taking into consideration the level of education of parents and the number of children in families both in 1998 and in 2007, two groups were distinguished according to socio-economic stratification (SES), i.e., with a high and low SES status. The values of somatic parameters and the results of motor abilities tests were normalized for the arithmetic mean and standard deviation in particular age categories. Results. In both 1998 and in 2007, higher normalized values of body height, mass, and BMI were noted in subjects belonging to the group with a high SES status. Only in 17–18-year-olds from 2007 were higher values of body height and mass observed in the group with a low SES status. As far as physical fitness was concerned in the categories of those aged 10–11 years and 17–18 years, higher normalized values of the majority of the analyzed motor tests occurred in boys from families with a low SES status, both in the research from 1998 and from 2007. However, in the age group of 14–15-year-olds, in the majority of the analyzed motor tests higher normalized values were observed in boys from the group with a high SES status. Conclusions. No substantial changes in the influence of socio-economic variables on the somatic development and motor fitness of rural boys from Lublin region in the years 1998–2007 were observed. Cel pracy. Celem pracy była ocena zmian w oddziaływaniu czynników socjoekonomicznych rodziny na poziom rozwoju somatycznego i sprawności motorycznej chłopców wiejskich z Lubelszczyzny w latach 1998 – 2007. Materiał i metody. Badaniami objęto 547 chłopców w 1998 roku i 484 w 2007 roku w wybranych kategoriach wieku 10–11, 14–15 i 17–18 lat. Rozwój fizyczny badanych oceniono na podstawie pomiarów wysokości i masy – 103 – Helena Popławska, Krystyna Buchta, Agnieszka Dmitriuk ciała, na podstawie których obliczono wskaźnik BMI. Sprawność motoryczną określono za pomocą prób wchodzących w skład testu Eurofit. Biorąc pod uwagę wykształcenie rodziców i dzietność rodzin, zarówno w 1998 jak i w 2007 roku, wydzielono dwie grupy, tj. o wysokim i niskim SES. Wartości parametrów somatycznych i wyniki prób motorycznych znormalizowano na średnią arytmetyczną i odchylenie standardowe w poszczególnych kategoriach wieku. Wyniki. W 1998, jak i w 2007 roku wyższymi wartościami unormowanymi wysokości, masy ciała i BMI charakteryzowali się badani zaliczeni do grupy o wysokim SES. Jedynie u 17–18-latków z 2007 roku wyższe wartości wysokości i masy ciała zaobserwowano w grupie o niskim SES. W przypadku sprawności fizycznej w kategoriach wieku 10–11 oraz 17–18 lat wyższe wartości unormowane większości analizowanych prób motorycznych wystąpiły u chłopców z rodzin o niskim SES, zarówno w badaniach z 1998, jak i z 2007 roku. Natomiast w grupie wieku 14–15 lat w większości analizowanych prób motorycznych wyższe wartości unormowane zaobserwowano u chłopców z grupy o wysokim SES. Wnioski. Nie zaobserwowano wyraźnych zmian w oddziaływaniu zmiennych socjoekonomicznych na rozwój somatyczny i sprawność motoryczną chłopców wiejskich z Lubelszczyzny w latach 1998–2007. - - - - - Introduction Society’s changing living standards stimulate the need for multivariate analysis of physical and motor develop ment in children, adolescents, and adults. Typically, so cioeconomic, ecological, and cultural factors are listed amongst environmental determinants of development. In the case of anthropological studies, the size and character of social environment, parental education level and profession, as well as the number of children per family are usually taken into account [1, 2, 3]. All of these factors can be identified objectively; furthermore, the results of a study based on the aforementioned criteria can be assessed in view of other findings. In some cases, other elements of the living environment, e.g., the size of the farm, family type, the form of child’s vacation, as well as the sport activities of children and their families, are also considered as determinants of motor development in children and adolescents [4]. In most well-developed countries, no observed ef fects of the environmental variables on the develop ment and physical capacity of children and adolescents have been noted in the past several years. Thus, the so-called “biological classlessness” is postulated to oc cur in such countries [5, 6]. In contrast, disparities in the degree of somatic development and physical fitness of children and adolescents originating from groups char acterized by various socioeconomic statuses can still be observed in Poland. Many authors have noted that a superior economic status along with a higher level of parental education and a lower number of children per family are associated with higher average values of somatic parameters in the representatives of a given social class [7, 8, 9]. However, the results of recently published studies examining large city environments point to a lack of significant social variable-dependent differences in the developmental parameters [10, 11, 12]. The research presented in this paper pertained to children and adolescents from rural areas of the Lubelszczyzna region. This region, at the end of the 20th century, was characterized by the low educational levels of its inhabitants and a high number of children per family. Furthermore, social inequities were ob served in terms of somatic development and physical fitness of children and adolescents from Lubelszczyzna [13, 14]. The principal objective of this study was to answer the following question: was there any variation on the impact of the socioeconomic factors on the degree of somatic development and motor capacity in children and adolescents from the rural areas of the Lubelszczyzna region in the 1998–2007 time period? Material and methods This cross-sectional study was performed in 1998 and 2007, and included 547 (1998) and 484 (2007) boys from selected age categories, i.e., boys aged 10–11, 14–15, and 17–18 years, corresponding to various edu cational levels (primary, grammar, and secondary). The participants attended rural schools located in north western Lubelskie province. In 1998, the investigated schools were selected at random from a register listing all rural schools, kindly provided by the Department of Education in Biała Podlaska, and in proportion to the to tal number of schools of a given type in the former Biała Podlaska province. The schools in Janów Podlaski, Klonownica, Konstantynów, Leśna Podlaska, and Rokitno were selected. In 2007, the study was repeated in the same schools. The survey intended to examine all school children whose parents expressed their con – 104 – - - - - - Anthropological evaluation of the influence of socio-economic factors on the development and physical fitness... sent, with the exception of individuals exempted from physical education classes. At the beginning of the study, the parents of participating children were asked to complete a questionnaire. Aside from parental con sent to include their child in the study, the questionnaire asked for the date of birth of each child, the number of siblings, and paternal and maternal educational level. The study included anthropometric measurements of basic somatic parameters taken using Martin’s tech nique [15]. Body height was measured using an an thropometer with a precision of 0.1 cm. Body weight was determined with an electronic medical scale with a precision of 100 g. Based on these values, the body mass index (BMI) was calculated for every participant. The somatic measurements were taken during morn ing hours. The children were examined individually, dressed in their gym suits and barefoot. Selected motor abilities and flexibility were deter mined using a set of trials included in the protocols of the European Test of Physical Fitness [16]. Explosive leg power was determined based on the length of stand ing broad jump and the strength of the trunk based on the number of sit-ups performed in 30 seconds. The evaluation of agility was based on the time obtained in 10 x 5m shuttle run, and the speed of upper limb movement was based on the time obtained in the plate tapping test. The sit and reach test was employed to assess flexibility [17]. The motor capacity of examined boys was measured at the sports facilities of participat ing schools during physical education classes. Three variables describing the family situation of the examined children, i.e., the level of paternal and maternal education and the number of children per family, were selected to assess the socioeconomic status of the participating families. These variables are widely accepted as indicators of socioeconomic status of the family, and thus allow for comparative analyses. Furthermore, parents report their education data and the number of children more eagerly than other char acteristics, such as economic status of the family or domestic relations. The level of parental (paternal and maternal) edu cation was classified into three categories: 1) primary and vocational training, 2) secondary education, and 3) post-secondary education. Similarly, three catego ries were recognized within the “number of children per family” variable. The first category included fami lies with one or two children, the second – with three children, and the third – with more than three children. For the purposes of this analysis, two groups located at the opposing extremes of the socioeconomic spectrum, high or low socioeconomic status (SES), were distin guished. The first group (high SES) included children and adolescents of parents with secondary or post-sec ondary education and originating from the families with one or two children. In contrast, the low SES group was comprised of school children from multi-children fami lies (at least three children per family), with the mother and the father possessing educational levels lower than secondary. The data recorded in 2007 was compared to that data obtained in the same region in 1998 in order to analyze the effect of changes in the factors indirectly evaluating the socioeconomic status of the families on the degree of somatic development and motor abilities of boys from rural areas. Both studies were performed by the same research team, employed the same meth ods of somatic development and motor ability assess ment, as well as the same criteria for the parental edu cation level and the number of children per family. Statistical analysis was carried out using Statistica 6.0 package (StatSoft). Individual values of somatic parameters and motor tests were normalized for the individual age groups by arithmetic means and stan dard deviations. Each parameter was presented in T scale, where T = 10z + 50, where z is the normal ized value of measurements; and in timescale, where T = 10(–1) + 50. The normalization procedure enabled the amalgamation of all the categories of boys aged 10–11, 14–15, and 17–18 years. The variables possessing the most significant im pact on the basic somatic characteristics, motor abili ties, and flexibility of our participants were identified using multiple regression analysis. Additionally, the significance of the differences between the normalized values of somatic parameters and motor tests deter mined in 1998 and in 2007 in groups characterized by high and low SES was analyzed using the Student’s t-test. Statistical significance of all tests was set at p < 0.05. Results The SES structure of examined children within the ana lyzed age categories is presented in Table 1. Analysis of the data presented in this table indicates a consider able variability in the distribution of high and low SES in 1998 and in 2007. In 1998, all of the analyzed age cat egories were characterized by a relatively small fraction of individuals with high SES and a high percentage of – 105 – Helena Popławska, Krystyna Buchta, Agnieszka Dmitriuk normalised values 56 * 54 * * 52 50 48 46 44 body height body mass BMI high SES 1998 54,2 54,0 52,8 low SES 1998 49,3 48,6 48,5 high SES 2007 51,2 52,7 52,7 low SES 2007 47,6 47,5 48,4 Figure 1. Normalized values of somatic features of boys aged 10–11 (T scale) those with low SES. In contrast, the opposite was ob served in the SES structure determined in 2007. The results of regression analysis, expressed as beta coefficients, and the percentage values of ad justed coefficients of determination (R2) illustrating the degree of the variability of each dependent variable as a result of the effects of the socioeconomic characteris tics included in this study, are presented in Tables 2 and 3. The values of standardized beta coefficients suggest weak (insignificant) associations between the paternal and maternal education levels and somatic parameters in both time periods of the study. With regards to the paternal education level, only the positive correlations pertained to body height and weight in boys from the youngest age category analyzed in 2007. Significant effects of the “number of children per family” variable on the somatic development was revealed in the cases of the boys aged 10–11 and 14–15 years analyzed at the end of the 1990s. However, a comparable relation ship was not documented in 2007. The socioeconomic variables examined in this study explained only a small fraction of variance in the analyzed somatic parame ters (approximately 5% in the case of body height and nearly 8% for body weight). More frequently, the effects 60 55 * body height body mass BMI high SES 1998 48,3 53,7 56,1 low SES 1998 50,6 49,7 48,7 high SES 2007 50,6 51,2 51,0 low SES 2007 42,1 42,8 47,4 normalised values * 50 45 40 35 - 30 - - * - - Figure 2. Normalized values of somatic features of boys aged 14–15 (T scale) – 106 – Anthropological evaluation of the influence of socio-economic factors on the development and physical fitness... normalised values 56 54 52 50 48 46 44 body height body mass BMI high SES 1998 50,2 49,1 48,9 low SES 1998 49,3 48,2 48,5 high SES 2007 50,4 50,5 49,9 low SES 2007 54,8 53,4 48,8 Figure 3. Normalized values of somatic features of boys aged 17–18 (T scale) of socioeconomic variables were observed to influence the development of motor abilities. Based on the results of regression analysis, trunk strength, explosive power and agility proved most “sensitive” to the effects of so cioeconomic situation. The following relationship was documented in all age categories analyzed in 2007: the smaller the number of children per family, the worse the results of trunk strength development. Additionally, paternal and maternal education had a considerable impact on the development of trunk strength. In particu lar, in the case of the category of the 10–11-year-olds, higher levels of paternal education were associated with poorer results of the trunk strength test, while a re verse correlation was observed with regards to mater nal education. In total, the analyzed variables explained between approximately 5% and 20% of the variability in the strength of the trunk. Socioeconomic status vari ables explained variability in the explosive leg power to a lesser extent (up to 4% at the most). Level of paternal education had a significant impact on this parameter, but the direction of this relationship was different de pending on the parent’s gender. Similar phenomenon was also observed in the case of agility of participants aged 17–18 years examined in 1998, in which case normalised values 60 50 45 40 35 30 flexibility explosive pow er trunk strength agility speed of upp. limb movement high SES 1998 47,2 49,2 45,5 47,4 51,0 low SES 1998 50,8 50,5 51,3 51,6 49,6 high SES 2007 46,8 49,6 44,7 49,6 48,0 low SES 2007 47,8 47,6 52,9 52,7 54,1 - * * 55 Figure 4. Normalized values of the analyzed motor abilities and flexibility of boys aged 10–11 (T scale) – 107 – Helena Popławska, Krystyna Buchta, Agnieszka Dmitriuk 65 * normalised values 60 * 55 50 45 40 35 30 flexibility explosive pow er trunk strength agility speed of upp. limb movement high SES 1998 54,8 50,7 48,3 54,8 53,4 low SES 1998 51,5 49,9 49,6 49,7 49,7 high SES 2007 49,7 48,8 46,3 49,2 49,5 low SES 2007 59,1 47,2 58,8 47,9 46,8 Figure 5. Normalized values of the analyzed motor abilities and flexibility of boys aged 14–15 (T scale) the socioeconomic variables explained approximately 9% of variability in the results of 10 x 5m shuttle run. The number of children per family was the only vari able which significantly affected the speed of upper limb movement; this association proved significant in the category of 14–15-year-olds examined in 2007. In contrast, no significant effects of environmental vari ables were observed in the case of the results of the flexibility trials. 65 normalised values 50 * * 45 40 35 30 flexibility explosive pow er trunk strength agility speed of upp. limb movement high SES 1998 47,1 48,0 47,9 46,7 50,4 low SES 1998 51,7 50,5 49,0 50,9 49,1 high SES 2007 47,9 46,7 46,5 54,5 50,7 low SES 2007 54,5 59,5 60,6 52,2 52,0 - - - - - * * 60 55 Normalized arithmetic means of somatic indices and motor tests (in T scale) in boys from extreme socioeconomic groups studied in 1998 and in 2007 are presented in Figures 1–6. When the variability of somatic development was considered, higher normal ized values of body height, body weight, and BMI were documented in individuals with high SES belonging to categories of boys aged 10–11 and 14–15 years. This aforementioned relationship was observed both in 1998 Figure 6. Normalized values of the analyzed motor abilities and flexibility of boys aged 17–18 (T scale) – 108 – Anthropological evaluation of the influence of socio-economic factors on the development and physical fitness... and in 2007, the only exception pertaining to the body height of 14- to 15-year-old boys who were examined in 1998. In 1998, slightly higher values of somatic devel opment parameters were documented in the group of boys aged 17–18 years who were characterized by high SES. On the other hand, the intergroup SES-related differences in body height and weight were markedly more pronounced in 2007, and a reverse relationship was observed, i.e., individuals with lower SES were characterized by higher values of those parameters. The SES-related intergroup differences proved sig nificant in categories of those aged 10–11 and 14–15 years, more often in 2007 (Figures 1–3). When physical fitness was related to socioeconom ic variability, both in 1998 and in 2007, better normal ized results of most analyzed tests were observed in boys aged 10–11 years and 17–18 years from families with lower SES. In contrast, such evident relationships were not observed in the category of 14–15-year-olds; however, in the case of the majority of the motor tests performed in this group higher normalized values were documented in boys from the higher SES group. The most pronounced differences between various socio economic groups pertained to body flexibility and trunk strength examined in 2007. Discussion Lubelszczyzna is one of the most eastern regions of both Poland and the European Union. This province is included in the group of provinces that are most endan gered by poverty and is characterized by low education al levels of the rural population. At the end of the previ ous century, nearly 60% of rural inhabitants had only primary or incomplete primary education; farmers with secondary or post-secondary education corresponded to 13.4% of this population, whereas the corresponding fraction in Poland is 21.4% [18]. Additionally, the inhabit ants of this region were characterized by a high number of children per family. More than 30% of families had four or more children [19]. Poland’s entrance into the European Union markedly improved the economic situ ation of families living in this region. Moreover, a grad ual improvement with regards to the educational level was also observed; nevertheless, the level of education is still below the country average [20]. Families’ changing socioeconomic situation may indirectly influence the level of somatic development and motor capacity of children and adolescents. However, our analysis did not reveal any considerable changes in the effects of socioeconomic factors on the biological development of boys from the rural areas of Lubelszczyzna studied in 1998 and in 2007. Boys from families with high SES are still characterized by higher values of body height, body weight, and BMI as com pared to their peers from the low SES group. The only exception pertained to the participants from the oldest age category (aged 17–18 years) studied in 2007 in whom higher values of body height and weight were documented in individuals originating from families with low SES. However, Student’s t-test showed those dif ferences to be insignificant. The results published by Table 1. The structure of selected SES groups in the examined periods Years of research N in total High SES status N % Low SES status N % X2 10–11-year-olds 1998 186 12 6.5 98 52.7 2007 195 54 27.7 38 19.5 54.7* 1998 165 12 7.3 61 37.0 2007 181 80 44.2 9 5.0 - 98.0* 17–18-year-olds - - 14–15-year-olds 1998 196 32 16.3 61 31.1 2007 108 39 36.1 8 7.4 * – statistically significant dependence, p < 0.05 – 109 – 31.4* Helena Popławska, Krystyna Buchta, Agnieszka Dmitriuk Table 2. Determinants of somatic features, motor abilities and flexibility – research from 1998* Explosive power Trunk strength Agility Speed of upper limb movement 0.287 6.2 Body height Body mass Father’s level of education Mother’s level of education 0.233 0.312 4.8 7.7 Variable Flexibility BMI 10–11-year-olds Number of children Corrected R2 (%) 14–15-year-olds Father’s level of education Mother’s level of education 0.241 0.219 0.213 4.9 6.5 3.6 Father’s level of education –0.165 –0.247 0.330 Mother’s level of education 0.226 –0.219 Number of children Corrected R2 (%) 1.0 5.1 9.0 Explosive power Trunk strength Agility Speed of upper limb movement Number of children Corrected R2 (%) 17–18-year-olds * – only statistically significant standardized beta coefficients are included in the table Table 3. Determinants of somatic features, motor abilities and flexibility – research from 2007 * Variable Body height Body mass 0.176 0.215 –0.215 –0.430 0.169 0.223 0.231 BMI Flexibility 10–11-year-olds Father’s level of education Mother’s level of education Number of children Corrected R2 (%) 1.1 –0.263 4.2 3.2 19.9 1.0 14–15-year-olds Father’s level of education 0.245 Mother’s level of education –0.166 –0.255 Number of children –0.163 –0.161 Corrected R2 (%) 3.9 7.3 2.4 Father’s level of education Mother’s level of education Number of children –0.264 Corrected R2 (%) 8.4 * – only statistically significant standardized beta coefficients are included in the table - - - - - 17–18-year-olds Strzelczyk [21] suggest that an association between maternal and paternal education and somatic charac teristics of children and adolescents from rural areas is weak. In the case of maternal education, positive coefficients of correlation were documented solely in younger girls (aged 7–10 years) with regards to body weight and height as well as chest and knee width. Additionally, paternal education was found to be cor – 110 – Anthropological evaluation of the influence of socio-economic factors on the development and physical fitness... related mostly with the somatic characteristics of older boys (aged 11–15 years). The socioeconomic situation of a family influences the manner of spending leisure time, including the amount of time spent on physical activity. Charzewski [22] observed that the differences in the levels of physical activity in children resulted from belonging to a given social class, but occurred irrespectively of the degree of urbanization of the place of residence. Children from families belonging to higher social classes participated in additional sport activities, including sport clubs at school and other organized forms of sport activities, more frequently than those from lower social classes. Also, research of Blanksby et al. [23], Brodersen et al. [24], and McVeigh et al. [25] confirmed this aforementioned relationship, while, in contrast, it has not been observed by BiałokozKalinowska et al. [26]. Furthermore, the studies of physical fitness in chil dren and adolescents representing groups with high, moderate, and low SES documented variability in the results. Gołąb [27] analyzed children and adolescents between 8 and 18 years of age living in Nowa Huta and observed that the best results of standing broad jump and envelope agility run were obtained by boys with high SES and girls with moderate SES. In most age categories, the best levels of relative strength were documented in boys and girls characterized by moderate socioeconomic conditions. In a study by Mynarski et al. [28], conducted in the Upper Silesia region, significant differences between girls and women qualified to groups with moderate and high socioeconomic status were documented only in the case of Flamingo balance test and maximal oxygen uptake. In boys and men, significant socioeconomic status-related differences pertained to the results of handgrip, strength endurance, shuttle run, and bal anced walk tests. Based on the results of their study of adolescents from Cracow, Mleczko and Ozimek [10] revealed that the groups of participants from families with poorer economic status showed higher levels of motor capacity (with the exception of some coordina tion skills) in most age categories. Also, our study documented a similar tendency in categories of those 10–11 and 17–18 years of age. Participants from the group with lower SES had better results of most motor tests. This phenomenon may result from the fact that currently children from families with higher socioeco nomic status spend higher amounts of time learning, more frequently participate in extra-school classes and, thus, have less time for physical activity. Both in 1998 and in 2007, a higher level of motor capacity was documented in boys originating from families with high SES. This may be the result of earlier maturation of boys from parents with higher education levels, as suggested by the results of Wilczewski’s study [29], which was examined a rural setting. Conclusions 1. Similar tendencies with regards to the influence of socioeconomic variables on the somatic de velopment and motor abilities of boys from the Lubelszczyzna region were observed in 1998 and in 2007. 2. 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