EFFECT OF MENTAL IMAGERY AND GOAL SETTING ON SKILLS OF BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of eight weeks training of mental imagery and goal setting on skill acquisition i.e. dribbling, passing ,defense and shooting. of 15 female basketball players at the university level. It was a single group design in which fifteen female basketball players of university level were randomly selected. The sports imagery questionnaire was used for measuring the imagery ability of the individuals and AAPHERD Basketball skill test was used to evaluate the four different skills of the individuals. The pre, during and post data was collected within a gap of four weeks respectively. The responses given by the subjects were analyzed by using one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and then further the LSD test was applied to see the difference among the different variables