Examining the relationship between response inhibition and Taekwondo performance: The importance of ecological validity

IF 3.1 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102817

Wei-Li Hsieh , Shih-Chun Kao , David Moreau , Chien-Ting Wu , Chun-Hao Wang

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Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between lab- and field-based response inhibition tasks and their associations with taekwondo athletes' on-field performance. Twenty-eight senior high-school taekwondo athletes were recruited to participate in this study. Athletes’ on-field performances were evaluated by three experts (i.e., national-level coaches) using a 5-point Likert scale based on the observations of regular training and competitive performances. Further, all athletes completed a series of physical fitness and skill tests, as well as response inhibition tasks measured in the lab (i.e., the go/no-go task) and the field (i.e., the go/no-go task designed using BlazePod™ technology). The results revealed that, although a significant correlation was found between lab- and field-based response inhibition measures, only the field-based go/no-go decision-making performance correlated with expert-rated on-field performance. Specifically, this measure was found to be a stronger predictor of on-field performance than anthropometry, physical fitness and taekwondo-specific skill performance. In sum, our findings suggest that using field-based measures for assessing response inhibition offers a greater predictive power for real-life performance, which may be more beneficial for other practical applications.

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

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6.40

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5.90%

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172

审稿时长

69 days

期刊介绍： Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers, protocol papers for trials, and reports of professional practice (which will need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description). The CONSORT guidelines consort-statement need to be followed for protocol papers for trials; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the CONSORT checklist. For meta-analysis, the PRISMA prisma-statement guidelines should be followed; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the PRISMA checklist. For systematic reviews it is recommended that the PRISMA guidelines are followed, although it is not compulsory. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.