Does a Professor＇s Somatotype Influence Perceptions of Their Intelligence from Exercise Science Students？  

作　　者：Danielle Hemingson Andrew Shim Hee-sook Choi 

机构地区：[1]The School of Education, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion 57069, SD, USA

出　　处：《Journal of Sports Science》2013年第1期46-51,共6页运动科学（英文版）

摘　　要：The purpose of this study was to evaluate if Exercise Science students perceived their professors having high intelligence, based on a certain somatotype. A survey was conducted on 107 Exercise Science students at a Midwestern public university. Each student was shown pictures （male and female） of Sheldon＇s three somatotypes （ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph） and asked one question about their impression from each photo. A Wilks＇ Lambda distribution concluded at least two of the means for each somatotype group were significantly different. A pairwise comparison analysis was conducted which indicated that all of the group means were different from each other. Upon further examination of the data, a statistical significance was found using a multinomial logistic regression. The researchers＇ hypothesis was confirmed in that there was a difference in opinion regarding students＇ perception on Exercise Science professors＇. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that overweight people are also often perceived as less intelligent, unpopular, and unsuccessful than people of average weight. The findings in this study do support the outcomes of the research from previous investigations.

关 键 词：Perception INTELLIGENCE somatotype. 

分 类 号：G8[文化科学—体育学]