Growth and somatotype of urban and rural Javanese children in Yogyakarta and Bantul, Indonesia

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ID6135558
AutoresN T Rahmawati (0000-0002-9686-0907, ADA University), Janatin Hastuti (0000-0001-8621-463X, Universitas Gadjah Mada), Kumi Ashizawa (Otsuma Women's University)
Año2004
Volumen112
Número2
Páginas99-108
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570
EditorialAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/ase.00074
OpenAlexW2071141432
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas12

Stature and weight growth, and Heath-Carter somatotypes were studied in two groups of Indonesian children of 7 to 15 years of age. One was an urban Yogyakarta group of 340 boys and 373 girls from well-off families, and the other was a rural Bantul group of 222 boys and 243 girls from low-income families. As for general body size, the Yogyakarta children were taller and heavier than the Bantul children in both sexes. During puberty, the Yogyakarta girls were not larger than the Yogyakarta boys, whereas the Bantul girls had greater stature and weight than the Bantul boys. In the somatochart, the Yogyakarta children before puberty were distributed halfway between endomorphy and mesomorphy in both sexes, and thereafter the boys tended toward ectomorphy and the girls toward endomorphy. The somatotype of the Bantul children remained ectomorphic, but differed by sex with a greater mesomorphic element in the boys and a greater endomorphic element in the girls

Anthropometry · Geography · Indonesian · Sociology · Somatotypes · Body Composition Measurement Techniques · Demography · Dermatoglyphics and Human Traits · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology