New thoughts in Educational Sports

New thoughts in Educational Sports

The Effect of Sports Imagery Ability on Motor Performance, Concentration and Impulsivity in Elementary School Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Department of Sports Sciences and Health, Faculty of Humanities, Imam Reza International University, Mashhad, Iran
2 Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Iran
10.22034/ntes.2025.498977.1028
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of sports imagery ability on motor performance, concentration, and impulsivity in Mashhad City elementary school students. The research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlation in terms of type, based on structural equation modeling, whose data was collected using questionnaires. The participants included all the male and female students in elementary school (5th and 6th grades) in District 4 of the city of Mashhad, using the method of 10 times the number of items in the instruments (39 items in total), 390 of these people were selected as a sample. To collect data 4 questionnaires on sports imagery ability (Tahmasebi et al., 2022), motor performance (Van der Linde et al., 2014), concentration skill (Savari and Oraki, 2015), and impulsivity (Coutlee et al., 2014) were used. According to the results, the effect of sports imagery ability on motor performance (0.63), concentration (0.51), and impulsivity of students (0.55) was determined. Also, the significance coefficient for these paths was 2.38, 8.3,1, and 8.65 respectively, which means that sports imagery ability has a positive and significant effect on motor performance, concentration, and impulsivity of students. Also, sports imagery ability can predict 44, 65, and 71 percent of the changes in motor performance, concentration skills, and impulsivity of students, respectively. So, it can be stated that the higher the level of sports imagery ability in students, the better their motor performance, concentration skills, and impulsivity.
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Volume 1, Issue 4
Spring 2025
Pages 61-80

  • Receive Date 09 January 2025
  • Revise Date 28 January 2025
  • Accept Date 03 February 2025
  • First Publish Date 19 February 2025
  • Publish Date 19 February 2025