Abstract

The main objective of this transversal study was to examine the relation of morphological and conative characteristics normal and pathologic factors in volleyball junior players The data were collected on the sample of examinees N 126 aged 16 to 17 years from five volleyball clubs The applied measuring instruments consisted of 23 anthropometric measures 16 normal and 12 pathological conative variables Descriptive statistics Pearson s correlation coefficient and canonical correlation analysis were applied for data processing The results showed that among the set of anthropometric characteristics and set of normal conative dimensions with 51 of explained variance there is a statistically significant canonical correlation of high level Rc 77 p 05 whereas among the set of normal and pathological conative dimensions with the interpreted variability of 59 two significant correlations of average intensity Rc 73 p 01 and Rc 70 p 05 were defined Following relevant canonical factors were isolated I morphological ectomesomorfic factors longitudinal dimensionality of the skeleton and transversal dimensionality of the skeleton II normal conative factors extraversionintroversion and anxiety intelligence self-awareness courage a sharp temper and protension introspection and insighthonesty and III pathological conative factors performance of systems for regulating and monitoring the biological functions and automatic functions and editing of responses of defense and attack The structure of the relations between anthropometric characteristics and conative normal and pathological latent dimensions was presented for a probability level of 0 05