Visual Cognition and Experience Mediate the Relation between Age and Decision Making in Youth Volleyball Players
Visual Cognition and Experience Mediate the Relation between Age and Decision Making in Youth Volleyball Players
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DOI：
10.1097/opx.0000000000001724
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发表时间：
2021-07-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Bennett, Simon J.
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作者：
De Waelle, Silke;Van Bostraeten, Sara;Bennett, Simon J.
重要性：与新手相比，不同运动项目的专家表现出上级决策能力，但对青少年运动员的决策能力的发展却知之甚少。本研究表明，随着年龄的增长，视觉认知能力的提高和运动经验的积累可以解释排球运动决策能力的发展。目的：本研究旨在探讨视觉认知和排球经验在青少年排球运动员年龄与决策能力之间的中介作用。共有171名6至17岁的女子排球运动员进行了特定运动的，基于视频的决策测试，以及四种不同的视觉认知测试。使用结构方程模型，我们研究了是否排球经验和一个潜在的变量，从视觉认知的四个测试作为平行的中介年龄和决策之间的关联。结果：年龄和决策之间的关联的平行多重中介模型的支持，在青年排球运动员。此外，显着的间接效应和不显着的直接效应表明，视觉认知和经验完全介导的年龄和决策之间的关系，并共同解释38%的方差在决策性能。这两种介质的影响没有显着差异，并有没有剩余的相关性经验和视觉认知，这表明这些介质是无关的otherwise.CONCLUSIONS：我们的研究结果表明，视觉认知和排球经验调解年龄和决策之间的关系独立，这表明他们各自影响不同的部分决策过程。这些结果强调了青少年运动员感知-认知技能发展的重要性，未来的研究应进一步探讨这些技能的发展以及其在不同运动项目中的潜在因素。
SIGNIFICANCE: Experts in different sports show superior decision-making skills compared with novices, but little is known about its development in youth players. This study shows that the age-related improvements in visual cognition and accumulation of sport-specific experience explain a considerable amount of the development in decision making in volleyball.PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating effects of visual cognition and volleyball experience on the relationship between age and decision making in youth volleyball players.METHODS: A total of 171 female volleyball players aged 6 to 17 years performed a sport-specific, video-based test of decision making, as well as four different visual cognition tests. Using structural equation modeling, we examined if volleyball experience and a latent variable constructed from the four tests of visual cognition act as parallel mediators in the association between age and decision making.RESULTS: The parallel multiple mediation model for the association between age and decision making was supported in youth volleyball players. Moreover, significant indirect effects and a nonsignificant direct effect indicated that visual cognition and experience fully mediated the relation between age and decision making and together explain 38% of the variance in decision-making performance. The effects of both mediators were not significantly different, and there was no residual correlation between experience and visual cognition, which indicates that these mediators are unrelated to each other.CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrate that visual cognition and volleyball experience mediate the relation between age and decision making independently, which indicates that they each influence different parts of the decision-making process. These results highlight the importance of the development of perceptual-cognitive skill in young players, and future research should further investigate the development of these skills as well as their underlying factors in different kinds of sports.