The Impact of Guided imagery on Competitive Anxiety and Perceived Stress of Girls Basketball Players

Document Type : علمی- پژوهشی

Authors

1 Faculty of sport sciences, Urmia university, Urmia, Iran.

2 Department of knowledge and cognitive intelligence, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran

3 Faculty of physical education, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of guided imagery on
competitive anxiety and perceived stress in girls basketball players.
Methods: The present study was quasi-experimental with pre-test design, post-test. The statistical
population of the present study included female basketball students of the University of Tehran who
were physically and neurologically healthy and none of them were familiar with guided visual training.
Forty people randomly selected and divided into two groups (experimental and control groups). In this
study, the experimental group received guided imagery training for four weeks, three sessions per
week and each session for 50 minutes, but the control group did not received psychological training.
Subjects were tested by Cohen's Perceived Stress Questionnaire (1983) and Bischart's Competitive
Anxiety Questionnaire (2009). Data was analyzed by analysis of covariance.
Results: The results showed that perceived stress and competitive anxiety between the experimental
and control groups were significant (P ≥ 0.001), and this method can be used to reduce perceived
stress and competitive anxiety of basketball athletes.
Conclusion: guided imagery exercises had a significant effect on the selected psychological variables
and this method can be used to reduce perceived stress and competitive anxiety of basketball
athletes. 

Keywords


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