On a sample of 72 girls from high school „Svetozar Miletic“ from Novi Sad, age 18 ± 6 months di-
vided into two groups: physically active (at least 30 minutes of daily physical activities of moderate
intensity) and insufficiently physically active (below average) was performed a research of transversal
character with intent to determine whether there are statistically significant differences in morpholo-
gical characteristics and motor abilities. The study applied 13 variables, five morphological (body
height, body weight, body mass index, body fat percentage, m muscle mass percentage) and 8 moto-
rically (flamingo balance test, hand tapping, sit and reach, standing broad jump, from lying to sitting
position for 30 seconds, bent arm hang, shuttle run 10×5 m and endurance shuttle run). Obtained
results of multivariate analysis (MANOVA) indicate that there are statistically significant differences
between the variables in morphological characteristics at level of p = .02 and motoric abilities at the
level of p = .00, while univariate analysis (ANOVA) indicates, that in morphological characteristics
there are only differences in the percentage of muscle mass, at the level of p = .006, while in motor
abilities difference was determined in all variables.
