IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v18y2021i12p6316-d572968.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Role of Motor Imagery in Predicting Motor Skills in Young Male Soccer Players

Author

Listed:
  • Dariusz Zapała

    (Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland)

  • Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk

    (Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland)

  • Andrzej Cudo

    (Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland)

  • Marta Jaśkiewicz

    (Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland)

  • Marcin Kwiatkowski

    (Sport and Minds, 21-030 Motycz, Poland)

  • Agnieszka Kwiatkowska

    (Sport and Minds, 21-030 Motycz, Poland)

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Dariusz Zapała & Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk & Andrzej Cudo & Marta Jaśkiewicz & Marcin Kwiatkowski & Agnieszka Kwiatkowska, 2021. "The Role of Motor Imagery in Predicting Motor Skills in Young Male Soccer Players," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-9, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:12:p:6316-:d:572968
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/12/6316/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/12/6316/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Paulina Hebisz & Cristina Cortis & Rafal Hebisz, 2022. "Acute Effects of Sprint Interval Training and Chronic Effects of Polarized Training (Sprint Interval Training, High Intensity Interval Training, and Endurance Training) on Choice Reaction Time in Moun," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-15, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:12:p:6316-:d:572968. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.