The effectiveness of mental imagery on cognitive factors and motor performance of adolescent basketball players

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mental imagery on cognitive factors and motor performance of adolescent basketball players. The statistical population of this study included all adolescent boys who have played in the field of basketball and had the experience of participating in the training of basketball teams. The sample selection method was available and voluntarily. Thirty people were selected as a sample and were matched based on the scores obtained from the imaging questionnaire and from two groups of ۱۵ experimental and control. At the beginning and end of the exercises, attention, working memory and basketball performance were taken as pre-test and post-test from all participants. Imagery exercises in the experimental group were held for six consecutive weeks in the form of three sessions per week. Multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the mental imagery method at an error level of less than ۱% was effective on all five dependent variables. The effect size showed that the effect of mental imagery on sustained attention was more than other variables and had the least effect on dribble performance.In the literature on motor behavior and sports psychology, a major part of research in the field of mental imagery and its effects on learning motor skills (Hall et al., ۲۰۰۹). Recently, a lot of research has proven the effect of mental imagery on sports performance.Imaging interventions typically involve different key principles for applying imagery in practice and performance fields, commonly referred to as & quot;imagery training program. Despite the development of many illustration training models, none of them has gained global success among practitioners and coaches.

کلیدواژه ها:

Imagery ، Working memory ، sustained Attention ، basketball performance