Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify that the effects of the holistic-focus of attention on the movement of the “Jaban-ttwigi”, a body control task, for Korean dance. This study was conducted on 30 Korean dance experts (21.17 years old) who were over 9.7(± 1.22) years, and were randomly assigned to internal focus, external focus, and holistic-focus of attention. Experiments were performed by performing pre-test and treatment experiments by using the ‘Jaban-ttwigi’, and collected video data. Interactions between groups by time point appeared, and there was no difference according to the attentional focus condition in the pre-test, but in the treatment experiment, the holistic-focus of attention condition showed the highest evaluation score of motion compared to the internal focus condition. However, there was no significant difference from the external focus condition, and the external focus condition showed low volatility in performance at the pre-treatment-post stage. The results of this study confirm that the suggestion of internal focus is not effective for the experts, and the external focus is considered to be the most similar to the existing performance strategy. It is noteworthy that the holistic-focus of attention can be a more effective attention guideline than the external attention focus in body control tasks such as dancing, and these results need to be verified under longer-term practice conditions.

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