Factors affecting athletes' motor behavior after the observation of scenes of cooperation and competition in competitive sport: the effect of sport attitude.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This study delineated how observing sports scenes of cooperation or competition modulated an action of interaction, in expert athletes, depending on their specific sport attitude.

Method

In a kinematic study, athletes were divided into two groups depending on their attitude toward teammates (cooperative or competitive). Participants observed sport scenes of cooperation and competition (basketball, soccer, water polo, volleyball, and rugby) and then they reached for, picked up, and placed an object on the hand of a conspecific (giving action). Mixed-design ANOVAs were carried out on the mean values of grasping-reaching parameters.

Results

Data showed that the type of scene observed as well as the athletes' attitude affected reach-to-grasp actions to give. In partic

SUBMITTER: Stefani ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4623160 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature