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BODY MASS INDEX AS A FACTOR IN THE APPEARANCE EVALUATION IN ADOLESCENTS (BASED ON STUDENT SURVEY IN ARKHANGELSK CITY IN 2009–2010)

Zadorozhnaya L.V.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Zadorozhnaya L.V., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3143-3226, e-mail: mumla@rambler.ru

Abstract

Patterns of body mass index (BMI) have been analyzed in children and adolescents of the city of Arkhangelsk measured in 2009 cross-sectional study using standard anthropometric techniques (462 girls and 372 boys of middle school age) and interviewed by the author (self-assessment parameters) (114 boys and 172 girls). These individuals have been divided into groups by calculated BMI, gender, age and constitutional type. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between the type of constitution, individual value of BMI and self-assessment parameters were calculated. Also, analysis of BMI distribution in children with different constitutional types was performed. Relationship between self-esteem in adolescents, their perceptions of «normal» and «excess» weight and calculated BMI was considered.

Keywords

auxology, body mass index, self-assessment parameters, growth and development, obesity, children and adolescents, type of constitution

Цит.: Zadorozhnaya L.V. BODY MASS INDEX AS A FACTOR IN THE APPEARANCE EVALUATION IN ADOLESCENTS (BASED ON STUDENT SURVEY IN ARKHANGELSK CITY IN 2009–2010) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 4/2016; с. 85-91