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- Title
Perceptual and Emotional Competence Predicting Symmetry in Movement Coordination in Soccer Players.
- Authors
Saha, Srilekha; Saha, Soumendra; Mohd Zahir, Nurfarah Ezzaty Bind
- Abstract
Background: Purpose of this study was to identify complex relationship between psychological and psychobiological determinants of movement coordination in young-adult male amateur-competitive soccer players of Malaysia. Materials and Methods: Ninety-seven consistently high performing male soccer players of Kelantan province of Malaysia (matched in anthropometric, cardiovascular and performance status) volunteered as participants who were selected by three expert soccer instructors assigned by the Kelantan Provincial Council for Sports. Projective analyses of cognitive-emotional make up of the players were done to identify their inner cognitive core related to characteristic resilience; constriction and excitability etc. They were thus assessed with psychobiological parameters (viz. autonomic measures of arousal) and corresponding psychological (viz. emotional resilience; constriction and excitability) and psychomotor attributes (viz. agility; anticipation and movement coordination) in relation to performance excellence. Cortical activation related to perceptual discrimination ability was considered as the precursor for movement coordination, and hence players having differential (high or low) levels of cortical competence have been categorized accordingly. Results: Multiple linear regression analyses were done to observe direct, inverse and supportive relationships between measures of physiological arousal and psychological phenomena related to movement coordination observed in the male soccer players. Conclusion: Inner feelings of emotionality were found substantiated with the concomitant autonomic activation underlying coordinative performance in soccer performers.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; PSYCHOLOGY of movement; SOCCER; MULTIPLE regression analysis; BODY movement
- Publication
International Medical Journal, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 4, p346
- ISSN
1341-2051
- Publication type
Article