Background and Objective. The effect of attentional focus strategies on performance has been an interesting area of investigation, especially when the precision of performance is of significance. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of different attentional focus strategies on performance precision of elite military shooters. Methods. This study is semiexperimental with an intragroup design. A number of 10 military marksmen (30-42 years old) with at least 10 years of experience in shooting performed under four attentional focus strategies in a counterbalanced design. In each strategy, two blocks (each consisting of 20 trials) were conducted. Shooters’ performance was recorded using SCATT device and analyzed using the factorial variance analysis with repeated measure. Results. Results showed that the interactional effects of internal-external/relevant-irrelevant focuses of attention were significant on shooting record, shooting accumulation, and stability on the target center. Results suggest that the external-relevant attentional focus strategies were more effective than other focus strategies. Conclusion. The results of the study support the hypothesis that external-relevant attentional focus produced better scores, better accumulation, more stability at the target center, and less average fluctuation. Therefore, this attentional focus strategy improves performance precision of military elite shooters.

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差异化注意力集中策略对军事精英射手表现的影响

背景和目的。注意力集中策略对表现的影响一直是一个有趣的研究领域，尤其是当表现的精确性很重要时。本研究的目的是研究不同的注意力集中策略对精英军事射手表现精度的影响。方法。这项研究是半实验性的，采用组内设计。10 名具有至少 10 年射击经验的军事射手（30-42 岁）在平衡设计的四种注意力集中策略下进行。在每个策略中，都进行了两个区块（每个区块由 20 个试验组成）。使用SCATT设备记录射手的表现，并使用重复测量的因子方差分析进行分析。结果。结果表明，内部-外部/相关-无关关注焦点的交互作用对射击记录、射击积累和目标中心稳定性有显着影响。结果表明，外部相关的注意力焦点策略比其他焦点策略更有效。结论。研究结果支持这样的假设，即外部相关的注意力集中产生更好的分数、更好的积累、目标中心的稳定性更高、平均波动更小。因此，这种注意力集中策略提高了军事精英射手的表现精度。