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Time, anxiety and concentration: Influence on the effectiveness in free throws of women’s basketball

Abstract:

Introduction: Anxiety and concentration can be variables that affect sports performance, the first defined as a response of organism to external and internal stimuli, and the second as a psychic process where reasoning is included in order to achieve a specific objective. Another variable such as the execution time of free-throw technique could, in conjunction with the other variables mentioned, influence the technical-tactical effectiveness in women’s basketball in the senior category. Objective: To establish the existence of a relationship between the variables time used to implement the technique of free throw in women’s basketball, and the influence of anxiety level and concentration on the free throws effectiveness. Methods: Exploratory, descriptive and inferential research was carried out, investigating the population of 18 players, senior category female team of Universidad Internacional SEK, Ecuador (18-34 years). 12 basketball games and 24 training sessions were studied, obtaining the effectiveness of free throws (success percentage) and its correlation with the time used to perform the free throw technique, the concentration level (Test of Tolouse Pieron), and the anxiety level (Idare Test). Results: The existence of a weak positive correlation between the Time used in free throws and the effectiveness percentage in free throws (r= 0.169696301), between the Reactive Anxiety Level or Anxiety-State, and Effectiveness index in free throws, a negative correlation was established (r= -0.265917973), between the Anxiety-trait level a moderate positive correlation in free throws effectiveness (r= 0.34425398484), and a moderate positive linear correlation between the Concentration Level and the free throws effectiveness (r= 0.301500746). Conclusions: The time spent in free throws technical execution of senior women’s basketball, attention and concentration, have a linear influence that is normally positive at a low and moderate level in percentage effectiveness of the aforementioned sports technique.