Body Construction versus Direction of Studies

The essential premise determining success in practising many occupations is biological factor. We consider that it is especially important on the stage of choosing an occupation. On needs of this article one accepted assumption, that future professional preferences can already differentiate students on stage of recruitment and first period of learning. In the work we presented the results of research of body build of day’s direction students of physical education and physiotherapy. It’s aim instead was qualifying the differences in body construction between students of the both directions and revealing of the obtained results, which refer to both student’s groups, on the background of similar other groups of students in respect of professional aspirations. With investigations one embraced 104 students of the second year of studies of the University School of Physical Education of Poznań from the both directions. One measured 19 somatic features e.g. lengths, widths, circumferences, skin-folds and one enumerated 4 coefficients. In the analysis one undertook little known problem, whether the students of direction of physical education and of physiotherapy differ from oneself in the respect of basic features of body construction. One accepted hypothetical assumption that differentiation between these groups should be big. The results are not completely consistent with expectations, as show there are not many differences in body construction between examined students. The confirmation of the rightness of the undertaken investigations is based however on the comparison of somatic features of students of physical education and students of military school, and also students of physiotherapy and medicine. In the both comparative teams exist very much related professional preferences, and however one ascertained large differences in body construction referring to the majority of features on advantage of students of physical education and physiotherapy. Greater differences refer to the group of physiotherapy on background of medical students, than to the team of students of physical education in composition with young men from military school.