The Effects of Psychological Techniques on the Performance of High School Varsity Tennis Players
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i1.2431Keywords:
audio-visual stimuli effect on athletic performance, athletic performance, sports psychology, high school varsity athletic performance, audio-visual experimental procedureAbstract
Positive psychological techniques have been researched and implemented within professional sports as well as collegiate programs throughout the country. The effectiveness of audio/visual stimuli on high school aged athletes and their athletic performance, however, has not been previously evaluated. An experiment was performed on varsity high school tennis players where their serving accuracy was measured before and after being introduced to an audio/visual stimuli. 8 female and 9 male participants participated in the trails, where they would serve 10 times on each side of the court (20 total serves). Players additionally completed a survey regarding their mindset and positivity before participation. Results were measured both days of experiments and compared. Findings concluded that the male participants decreased their accuracy 16% after watching the video and females increased accuracy by 20%. Due to the higher number of males that were self reported to have a “negative” mindset, that was deduced to likely cause the decrease in performance along with the female-centered stimuli. These findings show a need for an appealing stimuli to males in the high school age group and demonstrate that emotional, female-focused stimuli helps to improve the performance of female high school athletes.
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