Sport Psychology Studies

Sport Psychology Studies

The effect of monitoring and outcome pressure during decision making on the visual search behavior of football players

Document Type : Original research

Authors
akbar bohloul 1
MEHDI SHAHBAZI 2
Shahzad Tahmasebi Boroujeni 2
yousof moghaddas tabrizi 3
1 motor behavior.Physical Education.university of Tehran. Tehran. Iran
2 Professor, Movement Behavior and Sports Analysis, Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3 Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.22089/spsyj.2021.10188.2129
Abstract
the aim of this study was to investigated The effect of monitoring and outcome pressure during decision making on the visual search behavior of football players. In this study, 18 soccer players employed in the Tehran youth premier league participated. The decision making task included images of soccer simulation conditions presented by the monitor in three conditions: neutral (no pressure), outcome pressure and monitoring pressure. The result of repeated measures analysis of variance test showed a significant difference in the number of fixation and during fixation in three conditions. In addition, the Bonferroni post-hoc test showed a significant increase in mean number of fixation and mean duration fixation in outcome and monitoring pressure compared to neutral pressure.Therefore, soccer coaches are suggested to help the players in training sessions by creating pressure conditions so that they can perform better in the competition conditions by experiencing these conditions during training.
Keywords
decision-making
fixation
outcome pressure
monitoring pressure
soccer
Subjects
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Sport Psychology Studies
Volume 13, Issue 47
Spring 2024
Pages 35-48

  • Receive Date 01 March 2021
  • Revise Date 20 April 2021
  • Accept Date 29 April 2021