Kinesiology, Vol. 19. No. 2., 1987.
Original scientific paper
New differentiation among several sports discipline
Boris Wolf
; Odeljenje za vojnu psihologiju, Vojnomedicinske akademije u Beogradu
Smiljka Horga
; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The sample for this study involved 783 subjects aged 19 to 27, representative of the Yugoslav male population of this age and in good physical health. The sample had finished more than 4 grades of primary school and had a sufficient command of the Serbo-Croatian language. The study used 3 tests for assessment of the efficiency of cognitive dimensions for reception, decoding and processing of information. The tests were selected in accordance with he cybernetic model of the structure of cognitive abilities (Momirović, Šipka, Wolf and Džamonja, 1978). The whole sample was divided into 18 groups of subjects who go in for sports and a group that fo not actively and systematically go in for any sport. The canonic discriminative analysis was applied on the 19 groups of subjects in the space of cognitive variables. One significant discriminative function was obtained that primarily depends on the efficiency of the the parallel processor. The canonic correlation (0.34) indicates a relatively weak effect of cognitive abilities on the selection of a sport as well as on the decision-making as to an active involvement in a sport. However, the results do show that there is a significant differentiation in relation to the ability for parallel processing in subjects involved in different sports. The gymnasts, water-polo players and shooters are to be found on that pole of the discriminative function which is defined by a greater efficiency of the parallel processor, whereas the boxers and footballers are on the opposite pole. On the basis of the obtained results, it may be assumed that it is most likely that some other anthropologic characteristics, along with sports and cultural features of a community, may more dominantly effect the type and intensity of the sports activity than the efficiency of cognitive functioning may do.
Keywords
cognitive abilities; sport; canonic discirminative analysis
Hrčak ID:
256624
URI
Publication date:
4.6.1987.
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