The effect of a mindfulness training course on basketball shot learning in high impulsivity female high school students

Volume 1, Issue 3
Winter 2022
Pages 1-14

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

2 MSc. Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

3 PhD Candidate. Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a mindfulness training course on basketball shot learning in female high school students in Maragheh with high impulsivity. For this purpose, 24 volunteers with an age range of (15-17) years from a high school in Maragheh city who were purposefully selected from the available community from among the volunteers who received the highest impulsivity score on the Barat impulsivity scale and in a simple random method in two groups 12 people (control and experimental groups) were divided. The groups were assessed using the Barat Impulsivity Scale and the Five-Dimensional Mindfulness Scale as a pre-test and post-test. The first group was the control group that did not receive any intervention, the second group was the experimental group that received eight sessions of mindfulness training, and both groups practiced basketball shooting for eight weeks and two sessions per week. In order to analyze the data, analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to determine the differences in pre-test and post-test with a significance level of 0.05. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the control and experimental groups in the stages of acquisition, immediate retention, delayed retention and transfer, and it was inferred that impulsivity disrupts learning and that mindfulness is a way to improve Learning is in individuals, however this intervention method failed to respond to the negative and destructive effects of impulsivity in learning basketball shooting skills.

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  • Receive Date 20 November 2021
  • Revise Date 28 January 2022
  • Accept Date 29 January 2022