期刊名称：Facta Universitatis : Series Physical Education and Sport
印刷版ISSN：1451-740X
出版年度：2012
卷号：10
期号：01
页码：13-21
出版社：University of Niš
摘要：The purpose of this study was to estimate the grip strength of the dominant (right) hand and its associations with selected hand-anthropometric variables in Indian inter-university softball players. The study deals with randomly selected 243 Indian inter-university softball players (121 males and 122 females) aged 18–25, from six Indian universities. The research was carried out in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. An adequate number of controls (n = 200; 98 males and 102 females) were also taken from the same place for comparisons. Three anthropometric variables, viz. height, weight and BMI, six hand-anthropometric variables, viz. the shape index, digit index, 2D:4D ratio, palmar length, palmar width, palmar length/width ratio and right handgrip strength were measured using the following standard techniques. The one-way ANOVA showed significant differences (p ≤ .02 - .000) in all of the studied characteristics, except age, height and palmar length among the male and female Indian inter-university softball players and the controls. Highly significant (p ≤ .000) gender differences were also determined for softball players in all of the studied variables except age, the digit index and the 2D:4D ratio. The right handgrip strength has significantly positive correlations (p≤ .03- .000) with all of the studied variables.
