The effect of two different attentional focus techniques on elementary non-athletes students

Abstract

The current study aimed to evaluate the duration in response from an external focus control over an internal focus while performing a skier squat, and to know if there is a difference among sexes, Heart Rate, and to identify which of this independent variable predicts better results. For this study, 22 females, and 22 males ranging age 9 to 11 years were randomly selected from a group (65) non-athlete elementary school students. The Accusplit 500 Memory Stopwatch was used to record the time when the students were performing this task. The selected group was divided in two, as group1 “Association Group” (AG) and group 2 the “Dissociation Group” (DG). The time for every non-athlete student was written in the Attentional Focus Data Design Chart (AFDC) and the data was computed in two-way Anova test, using IBM SPSS. In addition, a multiple regression test was executed to determine which variable predicted durability on the task being done. Results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between Association & Dissociation Concentration Techniques. Moreover, Heart Rate was a real prediction of endurance tasks. To conclude, lower heart rates male could perform longer than female and make a real statistical significance difference in this event.