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The Effects of Instructional Self-Talk on Quiet-Eye Duration and Golf-Putting Performance

Published:2023-09-01 Issue:3 Volume:37 Page:201-209
ISSN:0888-4781
Container-title:The Sport Psychologist
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Author:

Sarig Yonatan¹^ORCID,Ruiz Montse C.²^ORCID,Hatzigeorgiadis Antonis³^ORCID,Tenenbaum Gershon⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. College of Medicine—University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

2. Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

3. Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece

4. B. Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel

Abstract

While the impact of strategic self-talk on performance is well documented, examination of the attentional–perceptual mechanisms of self-talk is still at early stages. This study’s aim was to examine the effects of instructional self-talk on quiet-eye durations and putting performance. Thirty participants were recruited and randomly assigned to self-talk or control conditions. Participants performed a golf-putting task in a mixed between (self-talk vs. control) and within (pre- vs. postintervention) design. Two 2 × 2 mixed-design analyses of variance were conducted for performance and quiet-eye durations as dependent variables. A mediation analysis was conducted to examine the mediating effect of quiet-eye durations on performance. Results showed that self-talk use led to longer quiet-eye durations and better performance compared with controls. The mediation analysis indicated that performance was mediated by quiet-eye durations. Discussion centers on the role of quiet-eye in motor performance and how self-talk can assist in regulating quiet-eye.

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Subject

Applied Psychology

Link

https://journals.humankinetics.com/downloadpdf/journals/tsp/37/3/article-p201.xml

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