The Effects of Using Different Styles of Goals Setting in Learning jump shooting skill basketball

• Main Author: Nadim Sh. Al-Wattar
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences 2008-07-01
• Series: مجلة الرافدين للعلوم الرياضية
• Subjects: different styles; learning jump shooting; goals setting basketbal
• Online Access: https://rsprs.mosuljournals.com/article_50027_5682723e15862de2e3e38fb288a1e926.pdf

Goals are psychological components on which the important successions can be depending in the field of sport education. In the lights of scientific analyses of researches, it is found that goals have a great effectiveness to improve the athlete's performance particularly when it is allowed to those athletes themselves to set their own goals or at least participate in this process. The scientific discussion trend to interpretate these results according to that athletes be more acceptable and commitment to goals which set by themselves because of goal is an important mechanism of motivation used to determined the direction of goal. The problem of the research is confined to be acquainted with the essence of psychological effect of goals setting style on The jump shooting skill. Choosing a proper style of goal setting is an important difficulty facing the teachers, coaches, and athletes when applying educational and training curricula to achieve their goals .The research aims at revealing :The psychological effect of goals setting on Learning The jump shooting skill. The researchers had hypothesized There are significance differences statistically in the style of goals setting among the three experimental groups at post-test for improving skills of jump shooting: The researchers had used the experimental method, since it is convenient to the nature of research .The equal multi grouped experimental design with post-tests was taken up. The researchers had achieved the equality among the three experimental groups in variables of the chronological age, the high, and the weight; in addition to certain physical qualities .The sample was 60 students represents the first-class students of sport education collage, Mosul University, the academic year of 2001-2002. The sample divided into three experimental groups with twenty students each. The first experimental group represents the style of goal setting according to the self-pattern. The second experimental group represents the style of goal setting according to the delegation pattern (by teacher). The third experimental group represents the style of goal setting according to the combined pattern. The program included 24 sessions and lasted 12 weeks with 2 sessions in a week. Having achieved these programs, the post-test had done for the variables in question. The researchers had concluded There are significance differences statistically among the three experimental groups at post-test for improving skills of jump shooting. The researchers had recommended the following :Applying the styles of goal setting when preparing the basketball curricula in college and departments of sport education in Iraq.