Abstract
This research examined the audio-visual simple reaction times in the hands and legs of basketball, handball, and volleyball players. A total of thirty-six (N=36) male athletes randomly participated in this study, among them (n=12) basketball players, (n=12) handball players, and (n=12) volleyball players. The players’ average ages were 22.33±1.15; 22.00±1.41; 21.75±1.22, and they competed at the university level in their respective sports. The timer for Audio-Visual Reaction was used to measure the auditory and visual simple reaction times of the hands and legs in milliseconds. The mean, standard deviation, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA were used, and the level of significance was set at p<0.05. The F-value of auditory reaction time was 0.21 (> 0.05) in basketball, handball, and volleyball players' strong hand, 0.05 (> 0.05) in weak hand, 1.02 (> 0.05) in strong leg, and 2.23 (> 0.05) in weak leg. Whereas, the strong hand had a visual reaction time of 1.37 (> 0.05), the weak hand had a reaction time of 0.51 (> 0.05), the strong leg had a reaction time of 2.31 (> 0.05), and the weak leg had a reaction time of 0.65 (> 0.05). According to the statistical examination, no significant difference was obtained in auditory and visual reaction times among basketball, handball, and volleyball players with their strong and weak hands and strong and weak legs. Since there was no significant difference in the ANOVA analysis, the reaction times of the limbs (auditory and visual) were compared between each of the two games. The weak leg auditory reaction time was significantly different between basketball and handball players in an independent t-test (t (22) = 2.17, sig. = 0.041 at p 0.05). This study concluded that the auditory and visual simple reaction ability of hands and legs was closer for the three different court games, and a difference was obtained between basketball and handball players concerning weak leg auditory reaction time
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