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- Title
Enhanced Motor Ability, Coordination and Psychobiological Competence in Predicting High Soccer Performance.
- Authors
Zahir, Nurfarah Ezzaty Binti Mohd; Saha, Srilekha; Huda, Fouzia; Saha, Soumendra
- Abstract
Background: Present study was undertaken with an objective to study differential impact of psychotherapeutic training on improvement of coordination in performance of soccer skills. Materials and Methods: Thirty six young male soccer players of city of Kota Bharu in Kelantan province of Malaysia, in the age range of 18 to 24 years volunteered as participants, who were assessed with dispositional and transient anxiety by employing State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Thereafter, they were randomly categorized into three groups; viz. Group A - consisted of participants of control group; Group B - is referred to the Experimental Group I, who received Skin Conductance (Sc) Biofeedback intervention training and Group C, hereafter the Experimental Group II, who received Abbreviated Progressive Muscle Relaxation (APMR) training. All the participants were subjected to evaluation of transient anxiety; simple reaction ability; neuromuscular steadiness; motor coordination and psychobiological measures of tonic and phasic skin conductance activity as measure of pre-intervention analyses. Thereafter the participants of intervention conditions were introduced to their respective intervention training programs following standardize protocol (20 minutes/day; 2 days/week for 6 weeks). Mid-term analyses (all the parameters of pre-intervention analyses were repeated) were done three weeks after the introduction of intervention of intervention sessions. Thereafter the similar protocol of intervention was followed for three more weeks. Post-intervention analyses following similar analyses protocols were done on all of the participants. Results: Findings of repeated measure of ANOVA and multiple regression analyses revealed that both Sc biofeedback intervention and APMR intervention had beneficial impacts on coordination performance observed in the players. Conclusion: Both of the psychotherapeutic interventions have been observed to result in alteration in the psychobiological make-up; coordination and motor competence of the participants, which finally resulted in improvement in soccer performance.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; ANALYSIS of variance; ATHLETIC ability; BIOLOGICAL psychiatry; MOTOR ability; SOCCER
- Publication
International Medical Journal, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 5, p537
- ISSN
1341-2051
- Publication type
Article