This study was aimed at examining the effects of mental imagery towards performance of shooting penalty kicks among novice football players. A total of 32 participants were recruited and randomized into four types of groups [imagery group (n=8), imagery plus practice group (n=8), practice group (n=8) and control group (n=8)]. Results from current study show there was a substantial main effect for time, Wilks’ Lambda = 0.82, F (1,28) = 6.22, p= 0.02, ?p2= 0.18, with three groups (imagery, imagery plus practice and practice) showing an increasing score in accuracy of penalty kicks across pre and post-test. Besides that, there were statistically significant differences between group means as determined by one-way ANOVA: F (3, 28) = 8.23, p = 0.001. Post hoc comparison using the Tukey HSD test indicated that the mean scores for control group (M = 2.00, SD = 1.51) were statistically significant from imagery group (M = 5.13, SD = 1.64), imagery plus practice group (M = 5.88, SD = 1.46) and practice group (M =5.00, SD = 2.14) and there is significant difference in mean of image clarity for imagery group (M = 7.75, SD = 0.16) and imagery plus practice group (M = 8.38, SD = 0.18; t (14) = -2.55, p = 0.02, two-tailed). In summary, all intervention groups show improvement in accuracy of penalty kicks but, a long-term intervention is needed to improve the effectiveness of imagery. Besides that, imagery implemented alongside with physical practice help the athletes to have better imagery clarity of the outcome of the task that their need to execute.
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