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- Title
Can Prolongate Use of Social Media Immediately Before Training Worsen High Level Male Volleyball Players' Visuomotor Skills?
- Authors
Fortes, Leonardo S.; Berriel, Guilherme P.; Faro, Heloiana; Freitas-Júnior, Carlos G.; Peyré-Tartaruga, Leonardo A.
- Abstract
Our aim was to analyze the effect of mental fatigue caused by prolonged social media use on high-level volleyball players' visuomotor skills. Eighteen high-level male young volleyball players participated in this randomized, counterbalanced, crossover design. All participants underwent a 2-week experiment in which we measured their response times when performing a visuomotor task with and without mental fatigue inducement through repeated use of social media immediately before training sessions. In the control condition, participants watched TV for 30-minutes, and in the social media condition, they used a social media app (Instagram®) on smartphones for 30-minutes. We found a significant Condition x Time interaction on visuomotor task response time (p = 0.03), but there was no significant main effect of either Time or Condition. Mental fatigue, induced by repeated app-based social media use for 30-minutes immediately before training sessions, affected elite male volleyball players' visuomotor skills.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media; PSYCHOLOGY of movement; VOLLEYBALL; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; MALE athletes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; CROSSOVER trials; MENTAL fatigue
- Publication
Perceptual & Motor Skills, 2022, Vol 129, Issue 6, p1790
- ISSN
0031-5125
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00315125221123635