Structure of Coordination Motor Abilities in Male Basketball Players at Different Levels of Competition

• Authors: Sadowski Jerzy , WoŁosz Paweł , Zieliński Janusz , Niźnikowski Tomasz , Buszta Mariusz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Introduction. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the structure of coordination motor abilities (CMA) in male basketball players at different levels of competition. Material and methods. The study included 183 male basketball players from 10 Polish sports clubs. The examined groups consisted of seniors (n=42) aged 24.5 (± 3.3), juniors (n=37) aged 16.8 (± 0.6), cadets (n=54) aged 14.5 (± 0.1) and children (n=50) aged 13.4 (± 0.2). A battery of motor tests was administered to assess the following CMA: kinesthetic differentiation of movements, spatio-temporal orientation, reaction time, movement coupling, sense of balance, sense of rhythm and adjustment of movements. The structure of CMA under investigation was determined based on the results of Hotelling's principal component analysis in Tucker's modification, completed with Kaiser's Varimax rotation [1, 2]. Results. The CMA structure of basketball players was composed of three or four factors. Most often these included rhythm, movement differentiation, movement coupling and adjustment of movements. Less frequently the structure consisted of spatio-temporal orientation, balance and reaction time. An in-depth analysis of the CMA structure revealed that factors ranged from heterogeneous (children and cadets) to homogeneous ones (juniors and seniors). The distribution of identified factors in the common variance was the smallest in children and cadets (58.9% and 62.9%, respectively) and the biggest in juniors and seniors (69.3% and 68.48%, respectively).

Keywords

EN

team games; kinesthetic differentiation; rhythm; balance; reaction time

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 234-239

Dates

online

1 - 3 - 2015

received

28 - 4 - 2014

accepted

4 - 12 - 2014

Contributors

author

Sadowski Jerzy

• Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport in Biała Podlaska, Department of Athletics

author

WoŁosz Paweł

• Department of Basketball and Handball

author

Zieliński Janusz

• Department of Basketball and Handball

author

Niźnikowski Tomasz

• Department of Gymnastics

author

Buszta Mariusz

• Department of Foreign Languages

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pjst-2015-0004