Korean Journal of Human Ecology (한국생활과학회지)
- Volume 12 Issue 5
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- Pages.787-795
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- 2003
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- 1226-0851(pISSN)
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- 2234-3768(eISSN)
Study on Somatotype Analysis and Somatotype Discrimination of the Children's Upper Body
유아 상반신에 대한 체형분석 및 체형판별에 관한 연구
- Kim, Hyun-Jin (Dept. of Textile & Clothing, Catholic University of Daegu) ;
- Lee, Young-Ju (Dept. of Design & Merchandising, Kyungsung University) ;
- Hong, Jung-Min (Dept. of Textile & Clothing, Catholic University of Daegu)
- Published : 2003.12.31
Abstract
This research studied several somatotypes for children's upper bodies in order to suggest the basic data of bodice patterns of children's clothing. By extracting the component factors from the children's bodices, they were classified into several somatotypes to recognize an individual body type. Three hundred and fifty eight children's wears were estimated as research objects to analyze their somatotypes for the 44 items representing upper bodies through anthropometric measurement and photometric measurement. The results are as follows : 1. Seven factors were extracted as a result of factor analysis. 2. Data were classified into three types as a result of cluster analysis : Type 1 was characterized as low fat body, small skeleton size, and forward belly ; type 2 as high fat body, normal hight, backward shoulder, and the lowered shoulders ; type 3 as medium fat body, tall height, somewhat crouching back, and the rising shoulders. 3. As a results of the discrimination analysis for the three types, the highly discriminated items were height, width of bosom, front center length. weight, width of waist or the length of waist. One could discriminate one's own body type by obtaining the classification function from these five items.
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