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The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters
METHODS: This study is semiexperimental with an intragroup design. A number of 10 military marksmen (30-42 years old) with at least 10 years of experience in shooting performed under four attentional focus strategies in a counterbalanced design. In each strategy, two blocks (each consisting of 20 tr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1067610 |
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author | Amini, Amin Vaezmousavi, Mohammad |
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description | METHODS: This study is semiexperimental with an intragroup design. A number of 10 military marksmen (30-42 years old) with at least 10 years of experience in shooting performed under four attentional focus strategies in a counterbalanced design. In each strategy, two blocks (each consisting of 20 trials) were conducted. Shooters' performance was recorded using SCATT device and analyzed using the factorial variance analysis with repeated measure. RESULTS: Results showed that the interactional effects of internal-external/relevant-irrelevant focuses of attention were significant on shooting record, shooting accumulation, and stability on the target center. Results suggest that the external-relevant attentional focus strategies were more effective than other focus strategies. CONCLUSION: The results of the study support the hypothesis that external-relevant attentional focus produced better scores, better accumulation, more stability at the target center, and less average fluctuation. Therefore, this attentional focus strategy improves performance precision of military elite shooters. |
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spelling | pubmed-77146112020-12-07 The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters Amini, Amin Vaezmousavi, Mohammad Behav Neurol Research Article METHODS: This study is semiexperimental with an intragroup design. A number of 10 military marksmen (30-42 years old) with at least 10 years of experience in shooting performed under four attentional focus strategies in a counterbalanced design. In each strategy, two blocks (each consisting of 20 trials) were conducted. Shooters' performance was recorded using SCATT device and analyzed using the factorial variance analysis with repeated measure. RESULTS: Results showed that the interactional effects of internal-external/relevant-irrelevant focuses of attention were significant on shooting record, shooting accumulation, and stability on the target center. Results suggest that the external-relevant attentional focus strategies were more effective than other focus strategies. CONCLUSION: The results of the study support the hypothesis that external-relevant attentional focus produced better scores, better accumulation, more stability at the target center, and less average fluctuation. Therefore, this attentional focus strategy improves performance precision of military elite shooters. Hindawi 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7714611/ /pubmed/33294054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1067610 Text en Copyright © 2020 Amin Amini and Mohammad Vaezmousavi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Amini, Amin Vaezmousavi, Mohammad The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters |
title | The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters |
title_full | The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters |
title_short | The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters |
title_sort | effect of differential attentional focus strategies on the performance of military elite shooters |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1067610 |
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