抄録
Several studies on classifying the individuals into some categrories have been reported by several researchers, such as Noguchi and Igarashi, Ichimura, Stephenson and Matsuura, but only few studies to classify the teams and / or groups have been reported. In this study, it was attempted to classify the sport in terms of fundamental motor ability of team members. Fundamental motor ability was measured by 29 performance tests sampled from the following motor ability areas: physique, physical function, fundamental motor elements, and fundamental motor skills. Then, from the linear model of motor ability, the fundamental motor ability was estimated by factor score vector of 8 factors in boys, and by one of 9 factors in girls. These factors were extracted from the 29×29 correlation matrix through principal factor analysis and normal varimax rotation technique. The mean vectors were computed in each sport team and the inter-team correlation and similarity coefficients were computed with these mean vectors of fundamental motor ability. Investigating these correlations and similarity coefficients, the team configulaiton diagram was drawn. Then, another factor analysis was applied to the inter-team correlation matrix and the factors explaining the inter-team similarity were extracted and 15 sport teams and one non-athlete group were classified into 12 similarity groups for boys, and 6 sport teams and one non-athlete group into 3 similarity groups for girls in terms of the background factors of inter-team similarity or correlation.
