청년기한국여성의 체지인류학적 연구

Abstract

The author biometrically measured items on 3281 Korean women from 17 to 20 years of age chosen from the Ewha Womans University applicants in 1960. For the present, the author is going to report conclusions about the means and indexes which resulted from seven items: Stature. Height of Acromion, Height of Anterior Superior Iliac Spine. Span, Breadth of Anterior Superior Iliac Spine, Weight of Body and Breadth of Shoulder. 1) Among the above mentioned seven items. no recognizable differences were found among age groups and geographical groupings of those examined who were 17 to 20 years of age. Judging from the geographical data, we could surmise that Korean women who had regular educations and were brought up in higher social intercommunications and circumstances showed vague geographical differences. At the same time we could say that Korean women. especially those who belonged to the educated and socially higher classes made their complete growth by the age of 17 years. 2) The present women's generation, increased from 3. 7% to 5. 6% in stature in comparison with the past women's generation of the same age, and at the same time increased from 9.4% to 11. 1% in the height of the anterior superior iliac spine. The increase in stature mostly depended upon growth of the lower extremity, according to the above findings. The increase in the height of the acromion is in proportion to the stature in increasing rate of growrh, 3) The span had high individal differences in comparison with the stature. In the index of the span to the stature, Korean women had a lower value than that of the Japanese. 4) The two items, the breadth of the shoulder and the breadth of the anterior superior iliac spine, showed no individual differences in comparison with the past women's generation at the same age. Judging from the above result, we might say that the transverse diameter of the body was not influenced by social circumstances. 5) The weight of the Korean women had conspicuous higher value than that of the Japanese, and also the index of the weight to the stature had slight higher value than that of the Japanese.