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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ), which assesses cognitive and motivational functions of imagery use. METHOD: Participants were 361 athletes (234 male and 127 female) with a mean of age of 24.29 ± 7.76 yrs. Athletes were recruited from 31 sports across three competitive levels (i.e., regional, national, and international). RESULTS: Confirmatory factor analyses of the 30-item five factor SIQ model revealed adequate fit to the data, c²(378) = 694.6, CFI = .91, TLI = .90, RMSEA= .05, SRMR= .05. Multivariate analyses of variance revealed that athletes of higher competitive level reported significantly higher levels of cognitive general and cognitive specific imagery. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, these results provide further support for the claim that the SIQ has a reproducible factor structure and internal consistency for measuring imagery use in Spanish athletes.
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Athletes/psychology , Athletic Performance/psychology , Imagery, Psychotherapy , Psychometrics , Sports/psychology , Surveys and Questionnaires , Adolescent , Adult , Athletic Performance/classification , Cognition , Factor Analysis, Statistical , Female , Humans , Imagination , Language , Male , Middle Aged , Models, Psychological , Motivation , Reproducibility of Results , Spain , Young AdultABSTRACT
In 2009, the International Judo Federation established a ranking system (RS) to classify athletes and to distribute the competitor quotas of the Olympic Games. However, the RS does not consider the home advantage. This issue has not been studied in judo, and its implications for the RS have not been determined. The objective was to verify the home advantage in judo in terms of winning a medal or the number of matches won. Therefore, 25 competitions that computed points for the RS in 2009 were analysed. Logistic regression analysis and the Poisson generalised linear model were used for the analyses, which included the relative quality of the athletes. The sample was composed only of athletes who had competed both at home and away. The odds ratio for winning medals was higher for athletes who competed at home for both males and females. The association between the number of matches won and competing at home was significant only for the male athletes. The home advantage was observed in the competitions that used the judo RS. Thus, it is likely that athletes from countries that host competitions using the RS have an advantage in terms of obtaining their Olympic classification.
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Athletic Performance/classification , Competitive Behavior , Martial Arts/classification , Brazil , Female , Humans , Internationality , Logistic Models , Male , Poisson DistributionABSTRACT
En este trabajo expondremos una muestra de trabajos utilizados con deportistas jóvenes, partiendo de casos reales, destinados a la mejora de rendimiento, dentro del ámbito de la psicología del deporte aplicado. El objetivo del trabajo realizado será mejorar la atención y concentración de los deportistas en competición, partiendo de intervenciones puntuales muy dirigidas, y con el objetivo fundamental de mejorar determinadas situaciones concretas en competición en un tiempo muy breve. Partiendo de las teorías y técnicas de intervención en atención reflejaremos en varios ejemplos, como adaptarlas a situaciones reales de competición y como solucionar diferentes problemáticas, atendiendo a necesidades específicas de cada situación competitiva. Precisamente, la corta edad delos deportistas, en muchos casos, es lo que hace necesario intervenciones muy dirigidas del tipo de las que mostraremos a continuación(AU)
In this work we will expose a sample of works used with young sportsmen, departing from royal cases, destined for the improvement of performance, inside the area of the psychology of the applied sport. The aim of the realized work will be to improve the attention and concentration of the sportsmen in competition, departing from punctual very directed interventions, and with the fundamental aim to improve certain concrete situations in competition in a very brief time. Departing from the theories and technologies of intervention in attention we will reflect in several examples, since adapting them to royal situations of competition and as solving different problematic, attending to specific needs of every competitive situation. Precisely, the short age delos sportsmen, in many cases, is what makes necessary interventions very directed of the type of which we will prove to be later (AU)