Relationships Between Selected Social and Physical Factors

Abstract

Interrelationships between personal distance (degree of personell acceptance), motor fitness, and athletic aptitude were studied using 83 boys in the 10-12 year age range. The relationship of athletic aptitude to leadership was studied in the same group. Another group of 75 boys of junior high school age was used to study the interrelationships between social adjustment, motor fitness, and athletic aptitude. In still another group of 45 freshmen university football squad members, the relation of personal distance scores to football ability, as judged on a man-to-man rating basis on nine items, was studied. All relationships were found to be positive, moderate, and significant at the 1 percent level of confidence.