The Effect of Self-talk on Attention and Performance of Archery Athletes of Iranian National Team

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of self-talk on attention and performance of archery athletes of Iran national team. A total of 24 elite male and female athletes of the national archery team were selected by random sampling and divided in the control and experimental groups (each group 12 participants). Pre-test of the attention was performed in two conditions without distractive stimulus and with this stimulus. To evaluate the performance in pre-test, each participant a total of 36 arrows. The
experimental group received self-talk training and did not pay to practical exercise. After 48 hours, post test of performance and attention was repeated. Mixed Analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test were used to analyze the data. Results showed that, self-talk effect on Women's Compound performance (p= 0.005) was significant. But on women‟s Rykerv )p= 0.34), man‟s rykrv)p= 0.65) and Men's Compound )p= 0.47) was not significant. Also, the effect of self-talk on attention in men and women in situation with and
without distractors was not significant (p> 0.05). Therefore, it can be said that the impact of selftalk is more in women. Self-talk impact on attention is dubious and this work without distractors and with distractors may be the same in men and women.