ABSTRACT

The main goal of this study is to examine the relationship between mental rotation performance of female athletes and sports that are gender stereotyped and show different motor demand profiles. 94 female athletes (handball, combat sport, sport students) participated in an egocentric and object-based mental rotation task using figures of human body stimuli presented in front or back view. Rather male-stereotyped combat sports include many body rotations with changing motion patterns, female sport students learn many new exercises in different types of sport (female stereotyped), handball training (non-stereotyped) contains mainly cardiovascular and tactical challenges. The main result was that a long-term specific sporting expertise is more important for mental rotation performance than the gender-stereotyped sport classification even if gender-role differences are included as covariate. This indicates, that for women specific motor components seem to be more important for the development of mental rotation ability than gender-stereotype aspects.

摘要

本研究的主要目的是检查女运动员的心理旋转表现与性别刻板印象和表现出不同运动需求概况的运动之间的关系。94 名女运动员（手球、格斗运动、体育学生）使用正面或背面呈现的人体刺激图形参与了以自我为中心和基于对象的心理旋转任务。相反，男性定型的格斗运动包括许多身体旋转和不断变化的运动模式，女学生在不同类型的运动（女性定型）中学习许多新练习，手球训练（非定型）主要包含心血管和战术挑战。主要结果是，即使性别角色差异作为协变量包括在内，长期特定的体育专业知识对心理旋转表现也比性别定型的运动分类更重要。这表明，对于女性来说，特定的运动成分似乎比性别刻板印象方面对心理旋转能力的发展更重要。