جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Action-specific Perception » در نشریات گروه « تربیت بدنی »

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of spectators’ presence on action-specific Perception and performance in the distal and proximal external focus condition. The current research was a semi-experimental study with a practical purpose. Among the female undergraduate students of the physical education faculty of Urmia University who had no professional and competitive sports experience in darts, forty people were selected randomly and divided into two groups based on the type of instruction: the distal external focusgroup and the proximal external focus group. In this research, the task of throwing darts was used and the participants made 20 attempts based on the type of instruction of their group, including proximal external focus (focus on the flight of the dart) and distal external focus (focus on the target), in two different conditions (with the presence of spectators and absence of spectators). The perceived target size test was performed at the end of the efforts, and before performing the dart-throwing task, participants filled out the Immediate Anxiety Measurement Scale (IAMS) to measure their anxiety in both conditions. To analyze the data, independent and paired samples t-tests were used to examine the differences between the two groups. The results indicated that the performance and perceived target size of both groups decreased in the presence of spectators compared to the absence of spectators, but this decrease was less in the distal external focus group. The findings recommend that athletes should benefit from effective and appropriate strategies to control anxiety, and also to reduce the destructive effect of anxiety caused by the presence of spectators on action-specific perception and performance, instructions of distal external focus should be used

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance and the perception of size of target under internal and external attention focus conditions as well as the relationship between the initial perception of the size of target and performance. 70 male students (mean age of 21±1.6 years) voluntarily participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to internal and external attention focus based on the type of attentional instruction. Subjects performed dart throwing task in 20 trials. The target size estimation test was performed before the trials, after the last trial and after the first successful trail. Pearson correlation coefficient was used for data analysis. The results showed a significant and positive relationship between the performance and perception of target size in external focus group. But in internal focus group, a significant relationship between performance and perception of the size of the target was not observed. Also, there was no significant relationship between the initial perception and performance in both groups. It is suggested that the focus of attention can be a mediating factor for action-specific perception phenomenon.