Graduate School of Leisure and Exercise, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan.
Graduate Institute of Sport Coaching Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan.
PeerJ. 2023 Mar 24;11:e15109. doi: 10.7717/peerj.15109. eCollection 2023.
Athletic mental energy is a newly emerging research topic in sport science. However, whether it can predict objective performance in competition remains unexplored. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the predictability of mental energy on volleyball competition performance. We recruited 81 male volleyball players (age = 21.11 years ± SD = 1.81) who participated in the last 16 remaining teams in a college volleyball tournament. We assessed participants' mental energy the night before the competition and collected their competition performance over the next 3 days. We used six indices of the Volleyball Information System (VIS) developed by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) to examine its associations with mental energy. All six factors of mental energy -motivation, tirelessness, calm, vigor, confidence, and concentration correlated with volleyball competition performance. Further, a hierarchical regression found mental energy predicted volleyball receivers' performance (R = .23). The findings advance our knowledge of mental energy and objective performance in competition. We suggest that future studies may examine the effects of mental energy on different sports with different performance indices.
运动心理能量是运动科学中一个新兴的研究课题。然而，它是否能预测比赛中的客观表现还没有被探索过。因此，本研究旨在检验心理能量对排球比赛表现的可预测性。我们招募了 81 名男性排球运动员（年龄=21.11 岁±标准差=1.81 岁），他们参加了大学排球锦标赛的最后 16 支剩余队伍。我们在比赛前一晚评估了参与者的心理能量，并在接下来的 3 天里收集了他们的比赛表现。我们使用了国际排球联合会（FIVB）开发的排球信息系统（VIS）的六个指标来检查它们与心理能量的关系。心理能量的六个因素——动机、不知疲倦、冷静、活力、自信和专注，都与排球比赛表现相关。此外，分层回归发现心理能量可以预测排球接发球员的表现（R =.23）。研究结果丰富了我们对心理能量和比赛中客观表现的认识。我们建议未来的研究可以用不同的运动和不同的表现指标来检验心理能量的效果。
