ASPECTS DE LA DIFFÉRENCIATION MORPHOTYPOLOGIQUE DANS UNE SÉLECTION D'ADULTES DE ROUMANIE.

The paper's purpose is to evaluate the degree of typological differentiation in the Romanian population using Kretschmer's classification of the three main psychosomatic types: leptosomic, pyknic and athletic. The selection formed by 5 samples from the main historical Romanian's provinces include 712 subjects from 18 to 60 years old (402 males, 312 females). The analysis of typological differentiation was only made from the somatic perspective, using stature and 15 constitutional indexes, which illustrate bodily development, trunk's shape, nutritional status, corpulence, adiposity, bodily robustness, etc. Average values, phenotipical frequencies and tests of significance were calculated. The typological analyses confirms a concordance between subject's bodily conformation and somatic description of the kretschmerian psychosomatic types. In our selection the pyknic type slightly prevails, followed by leptosomic and a lower percent of athletic types. Our study reopens the interest for the biotypological research of populations, important for the knowledge of human diversity, for clinical investigations, professional selection, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]