Paper Title :Analysis of Anthropometric Characteristics Between Senior Secondary School Players of Tribal and Non-Tribal Areas of Himachal Pradesh

Author :Lakshmi Tara, Hari Singh

Article Citation :Lakshmi Tara ,Hari Singh , (2017 ) " Analysis of Anthropometric Characteristics Between Senior Secondary School Players of Tribal and Non-Tribal Areas of Himachal Pradesh " , International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , pp. 43-45, Volume-3,Issue-3

Abstract : The present study has been conducted on 300 players with an aim to find out the difference in selected anthropometric characteristics between tribal (n=150) and non-tribal (n=150) senior secondary school players of Himachal Pradesh. Tribal sample were taken from the two tribal district i.e. Lahaul- Spiti and Kinnaurand two tribal tehsil i.e. Bharmour and Pangi ofChamba district in Himachal Pradesh. Non-tribal sample were taken from the three districts i.e. Hamirpur, Bilaspur and Una of Himachal Pradesh. Each player was tested for various anthropometric measurements necessary for estimation of suprailliac skinfold width, thigh skinfold width and calf skinfold width of tribal and non-tribal players. To analyze the difference in selected anthropometric characteristics of two groups of tribal and non-tribal players were determined through‘t’ test. From the findings, it has been foundthat non-tribal players possessed significantly suprailiac skinfold width, thigh skinfold width and calf skinfold width than tribal male players. Keywords - Skinfold

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-3,Issue-3

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