1Department of Human Biological Development,Faculty of Biology,Institute of Anthropology,Adam Mickiewicz University,Poznań,Poland.
2Department of Human Evolutionary Ecology,Faculty of Biology,Institute of Anthropology,Adam Mickiewicz University,Poznań,Poland.
J Biosoc Sci. 2019 Sep;51(5):669-682. doi: 10.1017/S0021932018000421. Epub 2019 Jan 11.
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of economic changes in the Polish territories under Austrian partition at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries on the trend in adult body height, and to examine the effect of number of children in a family, as a socioeconomic factor, on the differences in heights of males and females. Data collected in a 1939 survey for a group of 350 Lemkos living in Polish lands under the Austrian partition were obtained from archive material. Individual data were obtained for body height and number of siblings, to calculate family size. Linear regression analysis confirmed an increase in body height in males by about 1.2 cm per decade over the period 1860 to 1922. The number of children in a family did not appear to influence the mean body height of men and women. The observed positive mean body height trend probably resulted from the improvement in the economic conditions in the Austrian sector over the survey period.
本研究旨在探讨 19 世纪末至 20 世纪初奥匈帝国统治下的波兰领土上的经济变化对成年人体高趋势的影响，并探讨家庭中儿童数量这一社会经济因素对男女身高差异的影响。该研究的数据来自档案材料，是 1939 年对生活在奥匈帝国统治下的波兰领土上的 350 名列姆科人进行的一项调查中收集的。通过个人身高和兄弟姐妹数量数据，计算出家庭规模。线性回归分析证实，1860 年至 1922 年期间，男性的身高每十年增加约 1.2 厘米。家庭中的儿童数量似乎并未影响男女的平均身高。观察到的平均身高呈正增长趋势，可能是由于调查期间奥地利统治地区的经济条件有所改善。
