The correlation between toe lenght and height of football athletes and Non-Athletes of javanese descendants in state senior high school 3 Purwokerto

Abstract

The God creates human body with versatility, in which there is a correlation between the length of particular part of the body and height. Height is one of the four major biological profiles in forensic anthropology to identify a subject. The toe is apart of the body located on the lower limb where there is a toe bone (os phalanx) which is a long bone. An athlete has more nutritional intake and physical activity than non-athletes. The Javanese ethnic is the largest ethnic group in Indonesia. Height may vary based on the respective ethnicity. Senior High School 3 Purwokerto is a high school that has a class of football athletes and non-athletes class. To identify the correlation between the length of toes and height of athletes football and non-athletes of Javanese male students in Senior High School 3 Purwokerto. Analytical observational with cross sectional study design. The research subjects were taken by using simple random sampling method with the total of subjects 72 students. Data was analyzed using parametric correlation Pearson, nonparametric spearman and regression analysis. The result shows that There is a relation on several toes with height on both of the football athletes and non-athletes namely right big toe, right index toe, right middle toe, right fourth toe, left big toe, left index toe, left middle toe and left fourth toe, ranging from low to strong correlation (r = 0, 200-0, 799).There is a relationship between the length of toes and height of football athletes and non athletes of Javanese male in Senior High School 3 Purwokerto.