The Research of Imagery Ability and Anxiety of Collegiate Athletes.

• Main Authors: Lin, Mengchin, 林孟嶔
• Other Authors: Cheng, Wennuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81418168106369013616

碩士 === 臺北市立體育學院 === 運動科學研究所 === 100 === This study aimed to explore (1).the imagery ability and anxiety of collegiate athletes; (2).the differences in imagery ability and anxiety among collegiate athletes with different background variables; (3).the relationship among imagery ability and anxiety of collegiate athletes. Data was collected through Sport Imagery Ability Inventory, it includes (1).movement imagery ability (external, internal & kinesthetic imagery ability) which were based on Revised Version of the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ-2, Roberts, Callow, Hardy, Markland, & Bringer, 2008); (2).sport imagery ability (skill, strategy, goal, arousal, mastery imagery ability) which were based on Sport Imagery Ability Questionnaire (SIAQ, Williams & Cumming, 2011) (3).three-Factor Anxiety Inventory (Cheng, Hardy, & Markland, 2011). These inventories were found to be with good reliability and validity. There were 319 valid cases collecting through purposive sampling. The main results are as follows: 1. Collegiate athletes were better at internal and external movement imagery than kinesthetic imagery. 2. Collegiate athletes were at best at imagining achieving goals yet worst at imagining sports strategies. Furthermore, athletes who trained longer were better at imagining specific skills and sports strategies than less training athletes. Finally, elite athlete had better imagery abilities of skills, strategies, achieving goals, regulating emotion, and mental toughness in sport situation. 3. Collegiate athletes were good at regulating anxiety, and they had higher cognitive anxiety than physiological anxiety. Besides, elite athletes had higher regulation dimension of anxiety than less skillful athletes. 4. Collegiate athletes had better movement imagery ability when they had better sport imagery ability. 5. Internal perspective, kinesthetic, skill, strategy and mastery imagery ability could predict regulation dimension of anxiety, and arousal imagery ability could negatively predict physiological anxiety.