Neurolinguistic Programming and the Relationship between Attention and Anxiety in Alpine Skiing Juniors

Abstract

Problem statement: This study aims to show the correlation between anxiety and emotional distress and the different types of attention in juniors’ ski performance, age 11 to 15 years, from Romania. This experimental study is part of a large research on introducing the neurolinguistic programming techniques in training, as well as mental training techniques and its effects, to increase the performance. PurposeWe studied the rapport and correlation between focusing the attention and anxiety. The main objective of mental training through neurolinguistic techniques is to support individual and group sporting activities in any situation (e.g., workout or competition) to increase performance capacity. We also wantedto finddataprocessinggenderdifferences, which werecalculated utilizingthe t-testfor independent samples. MethodsWe applied the following tests in the competition days in control group and experimental group: EMAS for testing the anxiety, PDE for emotional distress, MA for focusing the attention, AP2 for observational sense, and AD for distributive attention. The statistical analysisof datawas performed utilizing SPSS.Findings and results: The results show the profile of all the skiers who participated innational championshipsports clubsin terms ofspecificanxiety,emotional distress, and variousmanifestations ofattention. These results willdetermine howwe will applythe mental trainingtechniquesforathletes in experimental groups,respectivelyneurolinguisticprogrammingspecific toeach sport. It will also help us toapplycertain techniquesdifferentlyby gender.