Publication: The effects of meditative music during imagery training on netball shooting performance
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2016-06
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Hasbullah, Nor Haslinda
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Imagery is widely used psychological skill training for the enhancement of performance in
sport as imagery can be used to exercise our mental to imagine something. Music is also
used to enhance sport performance. The purpose of the present study was to look into the
effect of using meditative music during imagery on netball performance. This is a pre-test —
intervention - post test study design. Twenty-nine healthy undergraduate female students
aged between 18 to 24 years old from Universiti Sains Malaysia participated in this study.
Participants were novices in netball sport, were randomly divided into two-intervention
conditions namely meditative music during imagery (MMI; n = 16) and no music during
imagery (NMI, n = 13). The means scores and standard deviation of MMI is (Af = 19.063,
SD = 0.042) and NMI is (M = 20.769, SD = 1.481). Before the pre-test, all participants were given a chance to try the netball shooting about three times in three different position
to make them familiarise with the netball shooting. Netball performance was measured in
three different positions with three different lengths, which were left position, middle
position, and right position. Each position had three different lengths and all together, the
participant had to shoot in nine different positions. During the intervention, all participants
completed four weeks of imagery consisted of 12 sessions of imagery before conducting
the post-test. SIAM was employed to check participants’ imagery ability. Participant’s
anxiety and self - confidence were measured at week 1 and week 4 using the CSAI-2R and
Self-Confidence prior to pre-test and post-test of performance. The result on SIAM showed
that all participants have scored from moderate to high score in the subscales of imagery
abilities. Thus, all participants were added to the study. Independent samples /-test showed
that there was no significant difference between both group MMI and NMI for netball
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Basketball