Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Percept Mot Skills. 2010 Aug;111(1):249-60. doi: 10.2466/02.05.28.PMS.111.4.249-260.
The current study examined the effects of self-talk on thought content during a tennis forehand crosscourt exercise. 16 adult tennis players (M age = 37.3 yr., SD = 8.31) were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group. After completing three baseline assessments, the players of the intervention group developed and implemented self-determined instructional cue words throughout three intervention trials. The participants' thought content was divided into three categories, and repeated-measures analyses of variance indicated a significant group by time interaction for execution-related thoughts and outcome-related thoughts, but not for circumstance-related thoughts. Follow-up comparisons showed that the experimental group players' execution-related thoughts increased and outcome-related thoughts decreased significantly, whereas thought content did not change significantly in the control group. The results of this study provided evidence for the effects of self-talk on players' thought content and supported the idea that self-talk could help athletes to focus on task relevant information.
本研究考察了自我谈话对网球正手斜线击球运动中思维内容的影响。16 名成年网球运动员（M 年龄=37.3 岁，SD=8.31）被随机分配到实验组或对照组。在完成三次基线评估后，干预组的运动员在三次干预试验中制定并实施了自我决定的指导提示词。参与者的思维内容分为三类，重复测量方差分析表明，执行相关思维和结果相关思维的组间时间交互作用显著，但与环境相关思维的交互作用不显著。后续比较显示，实验组运动员的执行相关思维显著增加，结果相关思维显著减少，而对照组的思维内容没有显著变化。本研究结果为自我谈话对运动员思维内容的影响提供了证据，并支持自我谈话可以帮助运动员专注于任务相关信息的观点。
