Comparisons and associations among anthropometric indices of first and second division and assistant soccer referees

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Pooya Shokati¹  Nicola Luigi Bragazzi²  Zanyar Fallahi³  Mohammad Hossein Samanipour⁴  Meysam Rostamzadeh Samarein⁵  Foad Asjodi⁶  Thomas E. Brownlee⁷  Rafael Oliveira⁸  João Paulo Brito⁸ 

[1] Department of Exercise Physiology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), York University, Toronto, ON, Canada;Human Nutrition Unit, Department of Food and Drugs, University of Parma, Medical School, Parma, Italy;Department of Sport Injury, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Sport Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran;Faculty of Sport Sciences, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Semnan, Iran;Iran Football Medical Assessment and Rehabilitation Center (IFMARK), FIFA Medical Center of Excellence, Tehran, Iran;Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom;Sports Science School of Rio Maior–Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Rio Maior, Portugal;Life Quality Research Centre, Rio Maior, Portugal;Research Center in Sport Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, Vila Real, Portugal;

关键词: anthropometry;    football;    body composition;    human body;    height;    weight;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1149779

 received in 2023-01-23, accepted in 2023-08-29,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionBody composition is an important predictor of performance and a key component of health and physical fitness. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to compare soccer referees of the first and second divisions and field assistant referees from Iran and to analyze associations of a body shape index (ABSI), body adiposity index (BAI), abdominal volume index (AVI), body roundness index (BRI), conicity index (ConI), and body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage (%BF).MethodsA total of 270 male soccer referees from the first (n = 124) and second (n = 72) divisions and assistant referees (n = 74) participated in this study. Skinfold thickness (measured at the chest, biceps, triceps, subscapular, abdominal, iliac crest, and front thigh), height, weight, hip circumference, and waist circumference were assessed to evaluate waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), %BF, and also ABSI, BRI, BAI, ConI, and AVI according to the ISAK protocol.ResultsThe main results indicated differences in WHR, WHtR, ABSI, BRI, AVI, ConI, and BF% with the assistant referees presenting higher values (p < 0.05). When considering the backward selection model, there were some associations with %BF in each group, specifically BMI, BAI, and ABSI in the first division; BMI, WHR, and ABSI in the second division; and BMI in the assistant referee group (all p < 0.05).DiscussionThe present study did not confirm the hypothesis that the first-division referees presented better body composition-related variables than the second division or assistant referees. Instead, it showed that the assistant referees that participated in both divisions showed a tendency to higher values which suggests that the level of division is not a major factor when analyzing body composition.

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