scholarly journals The effect of self-selected music on shooting performance among young female adults

Author(s):  
Nur Izzah Madihah Baharuddin ◽  
Kamaria Kamaruddin

Music has been widely used in our daily life and has been particularly useful in sports and exercise settings. Many researchers have explored the benefits and different types of music during sports activity and athletic performance. This study aims to investigate the effect of self-selected music on shooting the performance and the preferred type of music they listen to during the task. This is a quasi-experimental study done among 46 female netball players. They were asked to complete 12 trials shots at three different positions in front of the netball post. They were needed to complete the shooting trial under two conditions, with and without music within a one-week interval between the two conditions. Following the completion of the shooting performance, participants were needed to rate the motivational qualities of their selected music using the Brunel Music Rating Inventory-2 (BMRI-2) questionnaire. The result shown no significant differences between the two conditions on the participants' shooting performance (p>0.05), and most of the participants preferred to use fast type music compared to slow and medium music during the sports activity. Listening to music during the shooting performance didn’t improve their skill even with the use of the participants’ selected motivational music.

Introduction : Music has been widely used in our daily life and has an impact on performance in sports and exercise settings. Many researchers have explored the benefits of different type of music during sports activity and athletic performance. Purpose : This study aims to investigate the effect of self-selected/preferred type of music while on shooting performance. Method : This is a quasi-experimental study done among 46 female netball players. Participants need to complete 12 trials shots at three different positions in front of the netball post with and without music within one-week interval between the two settings. Subsequently, after completion of the shooting performance, participants were required to rate the motivational qualities of their selected music using the Brunel Music Rating Inventory-2 (BMRI-2) questionnaire. Result : The result revealed no significant effect on shooting performance between the two settings (p>0.05). However, there was a slight increase in shooting performance displayed when listening with self -selected music. Most of the participants preferred to use fast music type compared to slow and medium music during sports activity. Conclusion : Listening to their selected motivational music minimally improve their shooting performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed E. Darweesh ◽  
Safaa R. Elsady ◽  
Nahla A. Reifaie ◽  
Rania M. Sidhom

Abstract Background Dysgrahia is a learning disability that affects writing; it requires a complex set of motor and information processing skills. Dysgraphia makes the act of writing difficult and leads to problems with spelling, poor handwriting, and putting thoughts on paper. People with dysgraphia can have trouble organizing letters, numbers, and words on a line or page. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an Arabic training program for remediating Egyptian Arabic-speaking dysgraphic children. Results The Arabic training program through a quasi-experimental study (pre-post-test) showed significant results in remediating dysgraphia on twenty cases that had attended the phoniatric unit complaining of learning disability having dysgraphia with or without dyslexia. Conclusion The Arabic dysgraphia training program is an effective multisensory approach tool in the training of different types of dysgraphia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-10
Author(s):  
Alpansyah Alpansyah ◽  
Abdul Talib Hasim

The aims of this study were: (1) to identify an increase in students' understanding of the value of mutual cooperation through the use of reader response rules in Indonesian Language Learning (KRPDPBI); (2) identifying the use of the reader response principle in Indonesian Language learning (KRPDPBI) there are differences between male and female students. The design of this study used a quasi-experimental study with two different methods. The results showed that (1) the achievement of the score of understanding the value of mutual cooperation for students taught by KRPDPBI was better than for students taught by regular learning according to the curriculum; (2) the achievement of the understanding of the value of male students' mutual cooperation is no better than that of female students.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Kang-Il Kim ◽  
Joon-Tag Cho ◽  
Hyeon-Ho Park

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Agus Hendra Al-Rahmad

Background : Scaling Up Nutrition movement is a global effort to strengthen our commitment and accelerating action plan to improve nutrition, particularly the handling of nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life is exclusive breastfeeding and it until 24 months. One of the way is with exclusive breastfeeding counselling that can reduce stunting. The counseling is addressed to brides who need special attention in improving the nutrition and health. Objective : The aim of research to improve knowledge about exclusive breastfeeding counseling the bride through the use of leaflets. Method : This quasi-experimental study was a sample of 30 person a brides with non-random assignment, the variable a knowledge obtained through interviews using questionnaires while the method of counseling does face to face with an exclusive breastfeeding leaflet. The data was analyzed by dependent t-test. Result : The results showed exclusive breastfeeding counseling can improve knowledge bride (p= 0,000) with a mean difference is 6,13 and a deviation is 3,71. Conclusion : Increase of knowledge among ‘bride-to be’ about exclusive breastfeeding could be improved through the use of exclusive breastfeeding leaflet. Each health center must be in collaboration with Office of Religious Affairs to have exclusive breastfeeding counseling, and set one of the priority programs in the prevention of child stunting.   Keywords: Bride, counseling, knowledge of exclusive breastfeeding


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Jin ◽  
Lina Jia ◽  
Xiaojuan Yin ◽  
Shilin Wei ◽  
Guiping Xu

Misinformation often continues to influence people’s cognition even after corrected (the ‘continued influence effect of misinformation’, the CIEM). This study investigated the role of information relevance in the CIEM by questionnaire survey and experimental study. The results showed that information with higher relevance to the individuals had a larger CIEM, indicating a role of information relevance in the CIEM. Personal involvement might explain the effects of information relevance on the CIEM. This study provides insightful clues for reducing the CIEM in different types of misinformation and misinformation with varying relevance.


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