Kinesiology, Vol. 15. No. 2., 1983.
Original scientific paper
The Relationship between Cognitive Factors and Performance in Football
Ksenija Bosnar
; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Miloje Gabrijelić
; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The relationship between cognitive factors, defined as the efficiency of perceptive (INPUT), parallel (PARAL) and serial (SERIJ) processors, and two sets of indicators of performance in football was investigated in a group of 50 males positively selected for cognitive abilities and with at least an average knowledge of football in comparison with active footballers. The results were subjected to quasicanonical (QCR model) and regression (SRA model) analysis.
Neither quasicanonical nor regression analysis, in which cognitive factors had the status of predictors of evaluation of individual aspects of the game, showed a significant correlation between cognitive factors and performance when this was determined by the evaluations of judges who awarded points for technique (TEHNIK), play in attack (NAPAD), play in defense (OBRANA), creativity (STVARA), responsibility (ODGOVO), commitment (ANGAZI), control of behaviour (PONASA) and overall efficiency (OPCOCJ) after observing players over a number of matches.
When performance was defined as results in tests of situational-motoric factors specific to football, the first quasicanonical correlation between cognitive factors and performance was small but significant. It was formed by the almost equal participation of all three cognitive factors while the participation of situational-motoric factors of football was greatest for speed of non-linear running (BKRVIT) and the lesser for dribbling speed (BRZVOD) and manipulation with the ball (BARATL).
Regression analysis did not give any significant multiple correlation in the prediction of individual situational-motoric factors by means of the set of cognitive factors.
It is concluded that in a segment of the population of above-average cognitive status and with average playing quality in football there exists a weak positive relationship between cognitive factors and performance. However, it can be detected using objective means to determine the level of performance and by analyzing the relations between the full set of cognitive factors and the full set of situational-motoric factor specific to football.
Keywords
cognitive factors; performance; football
Hrčak ID:
245811
URI
Publication date:
1.1.1983.
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