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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"imagery training"”.
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Music, imagery training, and sports performance
Imagery is widely used in performance enhancement in sport. Music is also used to enhance sports performance. In this thesis, I examined the role of relaxing and arousing music during imagery on subsequent sports performance in three linked studies.
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Functional Imagery Training for Increasing Employee Psychological Resilience
… 6 then compares the intervention, Functional Imagery Training, to a waitlist control group in a pre-registered randomised trial to assess impact on employee resilience, quality of life, wellbeing, life satisfaction, and work-based outcomes. FIT encourages the development of personalised …
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Enhancing Grit In Elite Athletes Through Functional Imagery Training
… phenomenological findings, a bespoke Functional Imagery Training (FIT) intervention is initially tailored to athletes and delivered (Study Three). With ceiling effects present from our performance athletes (and those in Study Two) on the Grit Scale, a modified Sporting Grit Scale (SGS) is …
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Evaluation of an Imagery Training Program With Intercollegiate Basketball Players
… of this investigation was (a) to develop an imagery training program using the best procedures currently known and (b) to evaluate this imagery training program in a real-life or field setting. It was conducted over an entire competitive season using the University of Illinois men's …
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Functional Imagery Training, a novel, theory-based motivational intervention for weight-loss
… the acceptability and efficacy of Functional Imagery Training (FIT), a motivational intervention for weight-management. FIT is based on Elaborated Intrusion Theory, delivered in the style of Motivational interviewing (MI), and designed to promote sustained behaviour change and address …
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The design and implementation of group based Functional Imagery Training for weight loss.
… that uses motivational interviewing and mental imagery to increase intrinsic motivation and helps people to work towards their goals. FIT has demonstrated merit on a 1:1 basis with people who want to lose weight. However, 1:1 counselling can be costly and time-consuming for healthcare settings …
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Development and validation of the sport imagery ability measure
imagery is widely accepted by sport psychologists, coaches, and athlètes to be a useful psychological technique in the training of athlètes for excellence (1998; Janssen & Sheikh, 1994). If imagery training is to be maximally effective, practitioners need to establish an understanding ofthe …
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The Effects of Cognitive General Imagery Use on Tactical Decision-Making in Curling
… (CG; images of game plans and strategies) imagery use on tactical decision-making in curling. This dissertation is divided into four studies. Study 1 outlines the two-stage development of the Curling Strategy Assessment Tool (CSAT-2), a computerized measure of curlers’ tactical …
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The effect of different imagery ratios on learning and performing a gymnastic floor routine
… study was to observe the effect of different imagery ratios to physical practice needed to learn and perform a gymnastic floor routine. It was assumed that an increase in imagery ability would reflect positively on the floor routine performance. Twenty-seven school-aged, male and female, …
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Effects of Mental Practice on the Acquisition of Critical Psychomotor Skills in Recruit Police Officers
… conducted in examining the application of mental imagery to police marksmanship training. In that regard, the problems inherent in bringing this technique to bear needed to be defined by this study. In this study, various experimental procedures were tested to define techniques for utilizing …
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Imagery content and perspective and its effect on development of muscular strength
Equivocal results for imagery as a beneficial adjunct to performance may be due to diverse methodologies as well as a lack of clarity about the relationship between imagery ability and imagery perspective. This study used a randomized group design with repeated measures to evaluate the effect of …
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Preference for imagery perspective, imagery perspective training and task performance
Three groupswere used, an internal training group, extemal training group, and control group. Participants in the intemal and extemal training groups trained in imagery perspective use across two 30-minute general sessions and two 30-minute specific sessions on each of the skills. Participants …
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Creative Technologies for Behaviour Change
… motivational interviewing (MI) and functional imagery training (FIT) scripts developed specifically for remote delivery. MI scripts aimed to develop discrepancy, evoke solutions and promote self-efficacy. FIT scripts included multi-sensory mental imagery exercises at key points in the MI …
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Engaging Student Nurses in Lifestyle Management: The Role of Technology-Based Interventions and Mobile Health Applications
… FITZ app, an mHealth tool based on Functional Imagery Training (FIT), against a control app (‘Best-You’) using standard behaviour change techniques. However, engagement with both tools was limited, highlighting persistent challenges in student uptake of optional digital interventions.<br/>The …
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Using Social Robots to Deliver Behaviour Change Interventions
… such as Motivational Interviewing and Functional Imagery Training (FIT), due to their interactive design and a way to support the growing pressures on health sectors. This thesis builds on previous feasibility work but explores the use of the social robots to support students in changing …
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Differential treatment of test anxiety utilizing group systematic desensitization and relaxation training
… II (modified SD) received two hours' relaxation training and visual imagery training, after which they underwent SD in the following manner: Group I received SD based on Wolpe's model. That is, while in a relaxed state they were exposed to a standard hierarchy based on items from the Suinn Test …
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Testing the strength model of self-control: Does willpower resemble a muscle?
… pacing strategy. Study 6 examined the effects of imagery training on swimming tumble-turn performance. Findings showed no significant intervention effect, a result that goes against the proposed benefits of psychological skills training and runs counter to the predictions of the strength model. …