The study aimed to find out whether the imagery ability within the two subcomponents of motor imagery (visual and kinesthetic) allows predicting the results in simple response time task and eye–hand coordination task in a group of young male soccer players (9–15 years old). Non-specific simple response time and eye–hand coordination play a key role in predicting specific sports performance level. Participants performed Reaction Time Task, Eye–Hand Coordination Task, and completed Motor Imagery Questionnaire–Revised. Data were submitted to the structural equations analysis based on the maximum likelihood method in order to estimate a structural model of relationship between variables. Results indicate visual rather than kinesthetic motor imagery is associated with non-specific motor skills. Higher scores on the visual motor imagery scale were observed to correlate with faster reaction times and better coordination in the study group. This supports the idea that during learning a new perceptual-motor-task the visual control is required. Results provide the evidence for the specific role of the third-person perspective imagery in young athletes playing soccer.

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运动意象在预测年轻男足球运动员运动技能中的作用

该研究旨在找出运动意象的两个子组件（视觉和动觉）中的意象能力是否允许预测一组年轻男足球运动员（9-15 岁）的简单反应时间任务和眼手协调任务的结果。老的）。非特定的简单反应时间和手眼协调在预测特定的运动表现水平方面起着关键作用。参与者执行反应时间任务、眼手协调任务，并完成运动意象问卷 - 修订。将数据提交给基于最大似然法的结构方程分析，以估计变量之间关系的结构模型。结果表明视觉而非动觉运动意象与非特定运动技能相关。观察到视觉运动图像量表的较高分数与研究组中更快的反应时间和更好的协调性相关。这支持了在学习新的感知运动任务期间需要视觉控制的想法。结果为第三人称视角图像在年轻运动员踢足球中的特定作用提供了证据。