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Self-Control Strength and Mindfulness in Physical Exercise Performance: Does a Short Mindfulness Induction Compensate for the Detrimental Ego Depletion Effect?
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Stocker, Eva,Englert, Chris,Seiler, Roland
- 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
- 출판년도2019
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Journal of applied sport psychology
- 발행사항Vol.31No.3[2019]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN1041-3200
- 소개/요약To meet specific goals, athletes frequently have to deal with several demands which may deplete their limited self-control resources which may in turn negatively affect their subsequent performance in a wide variety of sports-related tasks (e.g., coordinative, psychological and physical tasks). Mindfulness meditation may be beneficial for mechanisms involved during self-control exertion, because it supports efficient emotion regulation, attention regulation and executive functioning. In our study, we investigated the effects of a short mindfulness exercise on physical performance in a state with temporarily depleted self-control strength (ego depletion). We applied a mixed between- (ego depletion: yes vs. no) within- (two times of measurement, 7 days apart; mindfulness: yes vs. no; order counterbalanced) subjects design to test our hypothesis in a sample of N = 34 sport students. Ego depletion was manipulated via a well-established transcription task. For the manipulation of mindfulness, participants performed a 4-min mindfulness exercise via audio in the mindfulness condition and listened to an audio book in the control condition. As a dependent variable, participants performed a previously validated strenuous physical exercise (plank exercise) for as long as possible and we measured the relative difference between the baseline measurement and T2. We found no interaction effect, meaning that a short mindfulness exercise was not able to compensate for the detrimental ego depletion effect. In future studies, potential mechanisms should be assessed to reveal the ego depletion effect on physical exercise performance.
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