The effect of apparatus use on athletes' attention performance in sports branches playing with ball: pilot study

Abstract

Aim: It was aimed that the comparison of the attention of hockey, handball and sedantary persons in this study.

Methods: A total of 87 participants including 52 players (23 hockey, 29 handball) and 35 sedentary who attended to the middle school in Gaziantep and had a mean age of 13.53±0.59, participated voluntarily. D2 attention test was applied to participants. The validity and reliability of D2 test were conducted for athletes and sedentary in Turkey. In addition, a mini-questionnaire was applied by researchers to determine their demographic characteristics. The Shapiro-Wilk test was examined for normal distributions. Kruskal Wallis test was used for comparisons.

Results: It was observed that hockey and handball players played regularly (3.00±0.00 days a week and 2.00±0.00 hour a day). The average sporting age of the hockey players was 3.30±0.77 years whereas the handball players were 2.48±5.00 years. Sedentary individuals were seen not to participate in an activity regularly. When the mean scores of all the groups regarding the selective and sustained attention are examined; Total Number of Items, Total Number of Errors and Concentration Performance were better than those of sedentary. But, there is no significant difference was found between hockey (use of apparatus) and handball players(non-use of apparatus). 

Conclusion: We can emphasize that the use of apparatus in sports branches has no effect on attention performance of athletes.

Keywords

• Hockey,Handball,Attention,Performance

Top ile oynanan spor branşlarında aparat kullanımının, sporcu dikkat performansı üzerine etkisi: pilot çalışma

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışma, top ile oynanan spor branşlarında aparat kullanımının, sporcu dikkat performansı üzerine etkisini ortaya koymak amacıyla yapılmıştır.

Materyal ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya, Gaziantep’te bir ortaokulda okuyanyaş ortalamaları 13,53±0,59 olan 52 sporcu [küçükler (12yaş) ve yıldızlar (15yaş); 23hokeyci (aparat: hokey sopası), 29 hentbolcu (aparat kullanılmıyor)] ile 35 sedanter olmak üzere toplam87 kişi (40 kadın, 47 erkek) gönüllü olarak katılmıştır. Katılımcıların dikkat düzeylerini belirlemede; D2 dikkat testi kullanılmıştır. Türkiye’de D2 testinin sporcular ve sedanterler üzerine geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışmaları yapılmıştır. Ayrıca, araştırmacılar tarafından demografik özellikleri belirlemek amacıyla mini bir anket uygulanmıştır. Verilerin normal dağılımları için Kolmogorov-Smirnow ve Shapiro-Wilk testi sonuçlarına bakılmıştır. Veriler, normal dağılım göstermediği için karşılaştırmalarda, non-parametrik testlerden Kruskal Wallis testi uygulanmıştır.

Bulgular: Hokey ve hentbol sporu ile uğraşan katılımcıların, haftada ortalama 3,00±0,00 gün ve günde 2,00±0,00 saat düzenli spor yaptıkları belirtilmektedir. Hokeycilerin ortalama spor yaşının 3,30±0,77yıl iken, hentbolculerin 2,48±0,5yıl olduğu görülmüştür. Tüm grupların seçici ve sürekli dikkat ile ilgili puan ortalamalarına bakıldığında; sporcuların (hokeyci ve hentbolcü) Toplam Madde (p=0,023), Toplam Madde-Hata, (p=0,004), Konsantrasyon Performansı (p=0,023) değerlerinin, sedanter öğrencilerden daha iyi çıktığı görülmüştür. Ancak, aparat kullanılan hokey ve aparat kullanılmayan hentbol oyuncuları arasında dikkat puanları yönünden anlamlı bir farklılığa rastlanmamıştır (p>0,05).

Sonuç: Spor branşlarındaaparat kullanımının, sporcuların dikkat performansları üzerine bir etkisinin olmadığını vurgulayabiliriz.

Keywords

• Hokey,Hentbol,Dikkat,Performans

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