僻地児童と都市児童における体格、体力の地域差に関する研究

第2報　運動機能,運動能力について

抄録

Rural boys and girls are insufficiently furnished with facilities and equipments of physical education. Moreover, they cannot freely enjoy physical activities independent of family labors. In the first report the author studied on physique of rural boys and girls and found that they had lower height and wider chest girth. This report deals with physical fitness of them. The subjects are same as those in the first report. Back strength, grip strength, vital capacity, 50m sprint, standing long jump, softball throw and chinning (repeated chinning in males and flexed arm hang in females) were studied and the following results were obtained: 1. Back and grip strength were superior in urban subjects to rural ones. 2. Vital capacity of rural boys and girls was inferior to that of urban ones at lower grades of primary schools. But as the former developed rapidly, they exceeded the latter at junior high schools. 3. Fifty meter sprint of urban boys and girls exceeded rural ones in both sexes. 4. Standing long jump was superior in urban males, but there was no difference in females. 5. Soft-ball throw of urban subjects was superior in males but inferior in females. This finding is considered to be resulted from the inferior ability of urban females. 6. There was no difference in chinning performance between urban and rural boys but the former was much inferior to the latter in case of girls.