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Imagery has been used by athletes and exercisers to achieve a variety of affective, cognitive, and behavioural outcomes. Mental imagery of planned activities increases the motivation of participation. Expectations of reward are associated with significantly more vivid imagery. Therefore, there is a need to implement virtual reality imagery, a new innovation in sport imagery that has the potential to attract players’ attention while reducing the time required to achieve an effective level of imagery. 60 Sarawakian youth football players (Mean ± SD = 21.08 ± 1.49) volunteered to participate in this study. They were randomly assigned to one of the three research conditions: Virtual Reality Imagery Group (VRI; n = 20), Imagery Script Group (IS; n = 20), and Control Group (CG; n = 20). Both of the VRI and IS received kicking skills training for 12 weeks. No intervention was given to the CG. Sports Motivation Scale-6 Questionnaire (SMS-6) and the Mor-Christian Football Kicking Test were employed at both the pre- and post-test. As a result, VRI demonstrated higher performance than the other groups, F(2.57) = 5.53, p = 0.006. Hence, it can be concluded that VRI could aids in the improvement of the kicking skill performance among the Sarawak youth football players.
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Ibrahim, C., Kuan, G., Muhamad, A.S., Kueh, Y., Chin, N. (2023). The Effect of Virtual Reality Imagery on Motivation and Football Kicking Skill Performance Among Youth Football Players in Sarawak. In: Kuan, G., Chang, YK., Morris, T., Eng Wah, T., Musa, R.M., P. P. Abdul Majeed, A. (eds) Advancing Sports and Exercise via Innovation. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8159-3_5
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