The Effect of Instructional Self-Talk with the Internal, External, and Combined Focus of Attention on the Dynamic Balance of Elderly Women

Karami, Esmat; Ashabi, Saba; Parvizi, Nastaran

doi:10.22034/ijmbsp.2022.354597.1045

The Effect of Instructional Self-Talk with the Internal, External, and Combined Focus of Attention on the Dynamic Balance of Elderly Women

https://doi.org/10.22034/ijmbsp.2022.354597.1045

Volume 2, Issue 2
Summer 2022

Pages 1-12

Iranian Journal of Motor Behavior and Sport Psychology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Esmat Karami ¹

Saba Ashabi ²

Nastaran Parvizi ³

¹ MSc, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Alzahra University,Tehran.Iran

² MSc Student, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Alzahra University,Tehran.Iran

³ PhD. Department of Motor Behavior and Sport Psychology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Different methods of developing balance in the elderly are essential in today's society. In this study, we investigated the effect of instructional self-talk with internal and external and combined the focus of attention on the dynamic balance of elderly women. For this purpose, 12 healthy older women with a mean age of 74.38 (±7.92) years were randomly selected within-group design under the four conditions, without self-talk, internal self-talk, external self-talk, and combined self-talk. The order and transfer effect was controlled through counterbalancing. The dynamic balance of the participants was measured using the star test. The analysis of variance with repeated measures and the Bonferroni post hoc test (P< 0.05) showed that the balance of the women in their aging combined with the self-talk situation was significantly better than the internal and external self-talk condition, and in the control situation was the lowes. Therefore, in the dynamic balance task, When the elderly are focused on a task, a combination of internal and external focus using self-talk is more effective than using one type of focus attention with self-talk.

Keywords

Star Balance Test

Attentional instructions

Ageing

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