title: The Effects of High- and Low-Anxiety Training on the Anticipation Judgments of Elite Performers.
abstract: We examined the effects of high- versus low-anxiety conditions during video-based training of anticipation judgments using international-level badminton players facing serves and the transfer to high-anxiety and field-based conditions. Players were assigned to a high-anxiety training (HA), low-anxiety training (LA) or control group (CON) in a pretraining-posttest design. In the pre- and posttest, players anticipated serves from video and on court under high- and low-anxiety conditions. In the video-based high-anxiety pretest, anticipation response accuracy was lower and final fixations shorter when compared with the low-anxiety pretest. In the low-anxiety posttest, HA and LA demonstrated greater accuracy of judgments and longer final fixations compared with pretest and CON. In the high-anxiety posttest, HA maintained accuracy when compared with the low-anxiety posttest, whereas LA had lower accuracy. In the on-court posttest, the training groups demonstrated greater accuracy of judgments compared with the pretest and CON.
authors.affiliation: Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, U.K.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alder
authors.forename: Paul R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: Joe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Causer
authors.forename: A Mark
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D015865:Racquet Sports / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult