The purpose of this study was to compare the mean performance scores of subjects under three visual conditions--congenitally blind, sighted, and sighted-blindfolded--on selected static and dynamic balance tasks. Twenty-seven male and 24 female adolescents, aged 168-209 months, were tested on stork stand for static balance and stabilometer for dynamic balance. A subject's score for the static balance task was the highest number of seconds he/she was on balance in one out of three trials. The score for the dynamic balance task was the highest number of seconds on balance in one out of five trials. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), a 3 x 2 factorial design, was used to test eight hypotheses at the .05 level of significance. Five hypotheses were accepted; three were rejected. Sighted adolescents (17) performed significantly better than the blind (17) and sighted-blindfolded subjects (17) on both the static and dynamic balance tasks. The mean scores of the congenitally blind subjects were significantly higher than the mean scores of the sighted-blindfolded subjects on the dynamic balance task. The mean scores of the sighted-blindfolded subjects were higher than the mean scores of the blind subjects on the static balance task; however, there was not a significant difference. Males performed better than their female counterparts on the static and dynamic balance tasks, but not significantly so. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: B, page: 1139. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75569 |
| Contributors | AL-SALEM, HANI FARID., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 135 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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