Predicting Visual-Motor Performance in a Reactive Agility Task from Selected Demographic, Training, Anthropometric, and Functional Variables in Adolescents

Reactive agility (RA) directly refers to athletes' visuomotor processing of the specific conditions for team sports. The aim of the study was to identify the factors among age, gender, sport discipline, time participation in a sports activity, reaction time, and visual field which could have an...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2020-07, Vol.17 (15), p.5322
Main Authors: Popowczak, Marek, Domaradzki, Jarosław, Rokita, Andrzej, Zwierko, Michał, Zwierko, Teresa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Age
Anthropometry
Athletes
Basketball
Body measurements
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Demographic variables
Demography
Dependent variables
Female
Gender
Humans
Independent variables
ISO standards
Male
Motor ability
Motor task performance
Multiple regression analysis
Perception
Performance evaluation
Performance prediction
Physical education
Puberty
Reaction Time
Reaction time task
Sensorimotor integration
Sensory perception
Skills
Sports
Sports training
Studies
Team sports
Visual aspects
Visual field
Visual fields
Volleyball
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Summary:Reactive agility (RA) directly refers to athletes' visuomotor processing of the specific conditions for team sports. The aim of the study was to identify the factors among age, gender, sport discipline, time participation in a sports activity, reaction time, and visual field which could have an impact on visual-motor performance in RA tasks in young, competitive team sports players. The study included boys ( = 149) and girls ( = 157) aged 13-15 participating in basketball, volleyball and handball. Anthropometric measurements were carried out, and the Peripheral Perception (PP) test was used to evaluate the visual-motor performance under laboratory conditions. The Five-Time Shuttle Run to Gates test was used to determine the RA. A multiple regression analysis was performed to identify the relationships between the visual-motor performance in an RA task (dependent variable) and the remaining independent variables (continuous and categorical). The findings of the current study indicate that the main predictive factors of visual-motor performance in RA among young athletes are gender ( = -0.46, < 0.000) and age ( = -0.30, < 0.000). Moreover, peripheral perception positively affected the achievements in the RA task in boys ( = -0.25, = 0.020). The sport discipline does not differentiate the visual-motor performance in RA in team sports players in the puberty period.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph17155322