Attentional control and its relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for Iraqi youth club’s players

Authors

  • Alyaa Mohammed Ali Physical Education and Sport Sciences College for Women, University of Baghdad
  • Intisar Uaid Physical Education and Sport Sciences College for Women, University of Baghdad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54702/msj.2021.20.4.0085

Keywords:

attention control, shooting skills, basketball

Abstract

The importance of this study is reflected in the fact that it is an attempt to identify attentional control and its relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for youth players for Iraqi Premier League clubs for youth for the season (2020-2021).

The problem of the research is to identify the level of some mental abilities, including attentional control, represented by attentional focus, attentional shift and attentional flexibility and their relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for the Iraqi players of youth clubs.

The study aimed to identify the relationship between attentional control and the accuracy of the performance of some types of basketball shooting for youth basketball players for the 2020-2021 season. The two researchers adopted the descriptive curriculum in a survey style and correlational relationships. The research community was determined by the Iraqi youth basketball players, who numbered (160) out of (16) clubs and these clubs are (Al-Amarah, Dijlah, Dhi Qar, Samawah, Al-Kut, Al-Sharqiya, Nasiriyah, Baghdad, Al-Mina, Al-Karkh, Al-Ittihad, Al-Naft, Adhamiya, Al-Shurta, Al-Tadamon, Naft Al-Janoub) and then a sample of (50) players selected in a random way and they are club players of (Al-Amarah, Baghdad, Al-Karkh, Al-Naft, Al-Adhamiya) and they were tested on the attentional control scale and after processing the results, it was found that some of the young basketball players have a high level of attentional control and the accuracy of performing some types of shooting in youth basketball.

Therefore, the two researchers recommend the necessity of paying attention to mental processes, including (attentional focus, attentional shift, attentional flexibility), as well as adopting the attentional control scale as tools to identify the level of some of the mental abilities that players possess

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Published

2021-12-29

How to Cite

Alyaa Mohammed Ali, & Intisar Uaid. (2021). Attentional control and its relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for Iraqi youth club’s players. Modern Sport, 20(4), 0085. https://doi.org/10.54702/msj.2021.20.4.0085