Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland.
Sport and Minds, 21-030 Motycz, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 10;18(12):6316. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18126316.
The study aimed to find out whether the imagery ability within the two subcomponents of motor imagery (visual and kinesthetic) allows predicting the results in simple response time task and eye-hand coordination task in a group of young male soccer players (9-15 years old). Non-specific simple response time and eye-hand coordination play a key role in predicting specific sports performance level. Participants performed Reaction Time Task, Eye-Hand Coordination Task, and completed Motor Imagery Questionnaire-Revised. Data were submitted to the structural equations analysis based on the maximum likelihood method in order to estimate a structural model of relationship between variables. Results indicate visual rather than kinesthetic motor imagery is associated with non-specific motor skills. Higher scores on the visual motor imagery scale were observed to correlate with faster reaction times and better coordination in the study group. This supports the idea that during learning a new perceptual-motor-task the visual control is required. Results provide the evidence for the specific role of the third-person perspective imagery in young athletes playing soccer.
本研究旨在探讨运动意象的两个子成分（视觉和动觉）的意象能力是否能够预测一组年轻男性足球运动员（9-15 岁）在简单反应时任务和手眼协调任务中的结果。非特定的简单反应时和手眼协调在预测特定运动表现水平方面起着关键作用。参与者完成了反应时任务、手眼协调任务，并完成了运动意象问卷修订版。数据基于最大似然法提交给结构方程分析，以便估计变量之间关系的结构模型。结果表明，视觉运动意象而不是动觉运动意象与非特定运动技能相关。研究组中观察到视觉运动意象量表的得分较高与反应时间较快和协调能力较好相关。这支持了在学习新的感知运动任务时需要视觉控制的观点。研究结果为在踢足球的年轻运动员中第三人称视角意象的特定作用提供了证据。
