...-The effect of motivational self-talk and positive feedback on static balance of girls 12-13 years’ old

self-talk and feedbacks are of psychological interventions that with motivation can be effective on motor performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of motivational self-talk and positive feedback on the performance of static balance task students 12-13 years.

Sixty students were selected from Qazvin and to Stork test (standing on one leg) received training. Then they underwent a pre-test and divided to three motivational self-talk, positive feedback and control groups. Participants in the experimental groups, after performing pre-test, psychological intervention were its own. To analyze the data and differences between groups, Kruskal-Wallis test and the Wilcoxon test to compare pre-test and post-test each group at a significant level of p<0.05 used.

The results showed that there was no significant difference between groups in the pre-test (p≥0/05), but ,motivational self-talk and positive feedback group have significant difference than control group in the post-test. In the other hand, they have better performance than the control group (p = 0.003). Furthermore, result showed that there both motivational self-talk (p = 0.001) and positive feedback (p = 0.000) lead to significant increment in student’s static balance.

This study showed that motivational self-talk and positive feedbacks are, as effective ways they can improve the static balance. Therefore, it is suggested that educators and others involved in the exercise use both psychological interventions in this study to progress in the static balance.