D. Iglesias
University of Extremadura
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Perceptual and Motor Skills | 2007
Fernando Del Villar; Luis González; D. Iglesias; M. Perla Moreno; Eduardo Cervelló
This study deals with decision and execution behavior of tennis players during competition. The study is based on the expert-novice paradigm and aims to identify differences between both groups in the decision-making and execution variables in serve and shot actions in tennis. Six expert players (elite Spanish tennis players) and six novice players (grade school tennis players) took part in this study. To carry out this study, the observation protocol defined by McPherson and Thomas in 1989, in which control, decision-making and execution variables were included, was used, where it was applied to the performance of the tennis player in a real match situation. In the analysis, significant differences between experts and novices in decision-making and execution variables are found wherein it can be observed that experts display a greater ability to make the appropriate decisions, selecting the most tactical responses to put pressure on the opponent. Expert tennis players were also able to carry out forceful executions to their opponent with greater efficiency, making the opponents response to a large extent more difficult. These findings are in accordance with those of McPherson and colleagues.
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology | 2007
Eduardo Cervelló; Francisco Javier Santos Rosa; Tomás García Calvo; Ruth Jiménez; D. Iglesias
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of situational and dispositional factors in contributing to competitive task involvement and performance in young tennis players. One hundred fifty-one adolescent tennis players and their coaches participated in the study. Participants responded to instruments measuring pre-game dispositional goal orientations and perceptions of the motivational climate and post-game task involvement in the competition by assessing concentration, loss of self-consciousness, and autotelic experience, perceptions of coach-initiated motivational climate in competition, and self-evaluation of game performance. In addition, coaches evaluated the players’ performance. Results showed that task involvement was predicted by players’ perceptions of a coach-initiated learning motivational climate in competition. Loss of self-consciousness was predicted by the players’ perceptions of a coach-initiated performance climate in competition. Finally, coaches’ and players’ assessment of performance were predicted by autotelic experience, concentration, and by perception of coach-initiated learning and performance orientation in competition.
Perceptual and Motor Skills | 2006
Eduardo Cervelló; Juan Antonio Moreno; Néstor Alonso Villodre; D. Iglesias
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of goal orientation, motivational climate, and dispositional flow in physical education lessons on extracurricular involvement in physical activity. Questionnaires were administered to 1,103 (792 athletes; 311 nonathletes) secondary school students (M age= 14.3 yr., SD = 0.7). Analysis showed significant mean differences between groups on goal orientation and dispositional flow in physical education lessons, but none for perception of motivational climate. These findings suggest that dispositional variables are related to extracurricular involvement in physical activity.
Archive | 2018
Benito León; Santiago Mendo; Diana Amado; Pedro A. Sánchez; D. Iglesias
Aim: Taking into account Bar-On’s postulations about social-emotional intelligence, the aim of the current work is to find out the differences in the five dimensions of this intelligence between children that practice organized sport and those children that do not practice it at the elementary school level. Method: A randomly selected sample of 940 children from elementary schools, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years old, attending different schools from the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain), was used. Results: The results showed that children who practiced organized sport had better abilities at the intrapersonal and interpersonal level, better adaptability and mood states, and greater emotional intelligence than those who did not. The findings regarding gender and age indicated greater values in girls of emotional intelligence, highlighting the interpersonal dimension, as well as mood state scores, whereas younger children showed greater intrapersonal intelligence and less stress management. Moreover, children who practiced for three or more hours per day had a greater ability to cope with stress than those children who practiced for fewer hours a day. Conclusions: To conclude, it is important to promote federative sport practice in elementary education in order to ensure that children learn to better regulate and manage their emotions.
Spanish Journal of Psychology | 2010
Tomás García Calvo; Eduardo Cervelló; Ruth Jiménez; D. Iglesias; Juan Antonio Moreno Murcia
International Journal of Sport Psychology | 2008
M. P. Moreno; Alberto Moreno; Aurelio Ureña; D. Iglesias; F. del Villar
Revista de Psicología del Deporte | 2005
Tomás García; Eduardo Cervelló; Ruth Jiménez; D. Iglesias; Francisco J. Santos-Rosa
Perceptual and Motor Skills | 2012
Luis García-González; D. Iglesias; Alberto Moreno; M. Perla Moreno; Fernando Del Villar
Cuadernos de Psicología del Deporte, vol 6, nº 2, 2006 | 2006
Luis J Garcı́a; M. Perla Moreno; D. Iglesias; Alberto Moreno; Fernando Del Villar
European Journal of Human Movement | 2005
M. P. Moreno; J. A. Santos; Luis Ramos; Eduardo Cervelló; D. Iglesias; F. Del Villar