Mohammad Vaezmousavi

Introduction: In individuals with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency (ACLD), defective sensory and motor neuroplasticity occurs in the central nervous system (CNS) due to defects in sensory afferents. To successfully restore ACLD individuals to pre-injury conditions, it is necessary to modify the neuroplasticity created in the CNS by prescribing...

Introduction: Decision-making is one of the key factors that are highly associated with psychological factors. However, there are few studies on the relationship between this variable and mental toughness. Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mental toughness and decision-making accuracy considering the mediati...

While the message emanating from physiological and psychological research has extolled the general advantages of exercise in physical and cognitive health, the social distancing and the impossibility of group exercises have revealed more complex conditions. Therefore, we performed an experimental study comparing the effect of individual and group c...

Background: The aims and all the aspects related to the assessment, will be taken into consideration, together to that can have a positive effect on performance, allowing each athlete, team and coach a good workout or match, whatever their competitive level. This study aimed to investigate the effect of eight weeks of physical and psychological int...

Background and Aim: This study aimed to investigate the performance of visual search and attention functions of aeronauts based on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Methods: This study was a non-randomized, semi-experimental, with a single-blind crossover design. The statistical population of the study was military aviators of a train...

Introduction: Motivation is essential in learning and progress. Every person's action has a source of reason whose purpose is to strengthen the person's desirable efforts and feelings. Aim: This study examines the relationship between personality traits and psychological characteristic of achievement motivation among girl’s students. Method: The me...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the main dimensions of participating in sport in girls and boys aged 14 to 17 years from eighteen high schools at three, five, six, seven and thirteen Tehran educational zones. After distributing questionnaires which contain: feedback and reinforcement, motivational orientation, perceived competence scal...

Background: The literature in sports psychology showed that a decrease in the feeling of psychological security probably caused a decrease in success and thus caused fear and anxiety. As a result, sports psychologists have focused on training programs to overcome the reduction in feelings of psychological security and fear. Aims: The purpose of thi...

Introduction: Understanding the cognitive-social factors that contribute to group success is crucial in creating and maintaining a group and its cohesion process. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the persistent effect of problem-solving methods and create interpersonal relationships on the cognitive-social dimensions of the group...

Background and Aims Time-of-day is a factor that could affect balance performance. On the other hand, arousal fluctuates throughout the day. The aim of this study was to investigate the static balance performance prediction based on arousal and activation in circadian rhythm. Methods In the current study, 30 healthy subjects (age= 21± 0.5 years) pa...

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of movement imagery questionnaire for children among with 7-12 years old children in Tabriz city. Methodes: For this purpose, the 199 athletes (88 girls and 111 boys) were selected and completed the Persian version of the movement imagery que...

Introduction: Transcranial direct- current stimulation is a nerve modulation technique that induces low- intensity direct current to brain cells that stimulate or inhibit spontaneous neural activity. In recent decades, the use of electrical stimulation has been used as an effective method to improve the cognitive, psychological, and physical perfor...

Introduction: Studies have repeatedly discussed the importance of training with sufficient cognitive and sensory-motor challenges in successfully transferring Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiencies (ACLDs) from rehabilitation centers to sports facilities. For this purpose, this study investigated the effect of mechanical perturbation training and...

Background: The mechanisms involved in expert performance have been the focus of many researchers. One of these mechanisms is visual skills. Many researchers have tried to compare these skills among expert and novice athletes to provide different solutions to enhance their expert performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the decision-ma...

Background: The mechanisms involved in expert performance have been the focus of many researchers. One of these mechanisms is visual skills. Many researchers have tried to compare these skills among expert and novice athletes to provide different solutions to enhance their expert performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the decision-ma...

Objective The incidence of COVID-19 disease in the elderly can accelerate normal degenerative process of cognitive functions. Interactive cognitive-motor training (CMT) is an intervention that integrates cognitive and motor tasks to promote individuals’ physical and psychological health. The present study aimed to examine the effect of CMT on recon...

The goal of this study is to compare the effect of fatigue on decision-making and visual search behavior of novice and expert soccer players. Participants were 14 male novice soccer players (mean age= 22.5 years) and 14 experts (mean age= 27.4 years). Both groups watched films of 1 Vs. 1 attack situations. Then they announced their decision to move...

Background: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) refers to a psychological disorder affecting multiple areas of an individual’s life. This disorder is reported to be more prevalent among athletes in comparison with the general population. Objective: To the best of our knowledge, there has been no information about the distribution of ADH...

The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the relationship between physical and academic self-concept among athlete and non-athlete female students. Physical activity and family socioeconomic status are considered as the variables of study. A number of 1063 athlete and non-athlete students, aged from 13 to 16, were randomly selected from different...

Background and Purpose: The beliefs are that sudden and unpredictable balance disturbance by instruments that cause mechanical perturbations can affect individuals with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency (ACLD) to reach faster and more effective recovery of knee dynamic stabilization strategies to return successfully pre-injury levels. The aim o...

Background and Aim The development of functional promotion methods in military tactics, especially shooting, is essential for the military. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of neuropsychological rehabilitation on the improvement of cognitive function related to accuracy and attention in military shooters with moderating effect of...

Background: Quiet eye is one of the cognitive factors that it affects shooting function. The aim of present study was to examine the effects of attention focus on quiet eye characteristics in military elite shooters. Materials and methods: In this semi-experimental study, 10 elite male military shooters (30-42 years old) with at least 10 years of e...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of learning some basic soccer techniques on perceptual-cognitive skills on the field. Fifty-eight female participants including 45 students of Azad University of Tabriz branch and 13 skilled soccer club players with a mean age of 22. 30 ± 3.08 years old were selected based on the inclusion crite...

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 r...

The purpose of this study was to test the inadequacy of the Competence Motivation Theory (Harter, 1988) in explaining the factors and barriers in sport participation among adolescents in Tehran. The participants included females (N=471) and males (N=342) between the ages of 14 and 17 (M=15/4) from eighteen high schools at three, five, six, seven an...

Physical self-concept is the perception and attitude of one's own body that is shaped by various social, cognitive, and behavioral processes that are important in adolescence, especially for females. The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the physical self-concept of adolescent females through the variables of physical activity and s...

Physical self-concept which is the most important constituent of personality in adolescents, is the mental image of each person in his or her body. One of the challenges of adolescents is their body changes due to maturity and their attitude towards their body. The aim of this study was to determine the relative contribution of puberty and physical...

Introduction: To achieve desirable level of motor development and physical-mental competencies and develop a healthy and active life style in the all individuals particularly children of military families and considering the job characteristics of fathers, requires accurate principles on motor and exercise skills that are called physical literacy....

DEAR EDITOR As the level of practice or competition increases, the risk of negative incidents similar to injury, overtraining, burnout, anxiety, and eating disorders also increases, which affects para athletes’ health and wellbeing (Kenta and Corban, 2014). Most athletes need to control their chronic pain, prevent sport injuries, and cope with slee...

As their illness progresses, patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) may suffer from motor impairments. In the present study, we examined the effectiveness of three interventions for learning a bimanual coordination task: Virtual reality training (VRT), conventional physical training (CPT), and the combination of VRT and CPT (COMB). A total of 45 wom...

Objectives To test whether a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program could reduce symptoms of anxiety, stress, and depression, and increase psychological well-being among retired Iranian football players compared to an active control group. Design Randomized controlled trial, with an 8-week MBSR intervention (16 group sessions, 90 min ea...

Background: Patients suffering from the Fibromyalgia (FM) have impaired cognitive function, reduced physical activity and more marked depressive symptoms. While physical activity and exercise therapy are not typically part of the standard treatment for this syndrome, there is mounting evidence that regular participation in activities involving phys...

While imagery techniques have been included in most psychological skills training programs for elite athletes, only few studies have investigated the effects of various components of imagery such as physical, environmental, tasking, timing, learning, emotion, and perspective (PETTLEP) in the context of motor learning among novice athletes. We teste...

Background and Objective: Body composition changes effects on physical, motor, and psychic aspects of people. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of playing-based exercises on weight, body mass index, and fat percentage of overweight children with developmental coordination disorder. Methods: The research method is semi experime...

In sport such as darts, athletes are particularly challenged by demands for concentration, skills underpinned by implicit learning, and fine motor skill control. Several techniques have been proposed to improve the implicit learning of such skills, including quiet eye training (QET) and quiet mind training (QMT). Here, the authors tested whether an...

To achieve desirable level of motor development and physical-mental competencies and develop a healthy and active life style in the all individuals particularly children and adolescents requires accurate principles on motor and exercise skills that are called physical literacy. The aim of the present research is to determine the relationship of the...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of attentional games, physical practice and mixed practice on the attention types and cognitive function of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). For this purpose, forty children with ADHD were selected and randomly assigned to four groups: physical practice, attention...

BACKGROUNDː Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) demand particular attention; people with SCI report reduced quality of life and impairments in everyday life. We tested whether and to what extent neurofeedback or a physical activity training could, compared to a control condition, improve reaction time and balance as proxies for fine motor control in a samp...

Objectives: With increasing age, declines in executive functions and basic motor skills such as posture control, muscle strength, and balance performance have been observed. However, no intervention has focused on enhancing both executive functions and balance performance concomitantly. Accordingly, the aim of the present study is to investigate wh...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the main dimensions of participating in sport in girls and boys aged 14 to 17 years from eighteen high schools at three, five, six, seven and thirteen Tehran educational zones. After distributing questionnaires which contain: feedback and reinforcement, motivational orientation, perceived competence scal...

Background: The sensorimotor cortex oscillations (of frequency ranging between 12 and 15Hz), commonly known as Sensorimotor Rhythm (SMR) has previously displayed a promising link between the performance of the visuomotor related to skill execution and part of psychology that is adaptive (for instance the process-linked attention which is automatic)...

Background and Aim: Work is one of the most important activities in human life, and it is the hope for many that it gives positive experiences and performance enhancement. The aim of the present study was to develop and determine the reliability and validity of a work-related flow state questionnaire (WFSQ) among military personnel. Methods: The st...

Background: Superior performance in sports such as shooting, archery and darts demands mastery of fine motor skills and high concentration levels. Among elite athletes, higher levels of fine motor skill performance have been observed among those better able to down-regulate brain waves between 8 to 12 Hz Alpha power in the right frontal lobe. Quiet...

Background. Although most people are aware of the advantages of physical exercise, they fail to adhere to a regular routine of exercise, which necessitates this intervention. Objectives. In this study, by controlling the moderating role of the variable of commitment to exercise, the effect of a special cognitive-behavioral intervention on the commi...

Background. Although most people are aware of the advantages of physical exercise, they fail to adhere to a regular routine of exercise, which necessitates this intervention. Objectives. In this study, by controlling the moderating role of the variable of commitment to exercise, the effect of a special cognitive-behavioral intervention on the commi...

The employment of neurofeedback is growing rapidly in sport performance enhancement. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of neurofeedback training on motor performance and conscious motor processing of skilled dart players. The subjects were 20 male skilled dart players. The research was conducted in five phases: pretest, neurofeedb...

Aims: The Neuro-linguistic Programming approach (NLP) refers to a distinct connection between neurological and linguistic procedures and behavioral patterns learned through planning. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of training neuro-linguistic programming strategies on self-efficiency, sport self-confidence, and performance of a...

BACKGROUND: Although most people are aware of the advantages of physical exercise, they have failed to commit to it. This forms justification for this intervention.OBJECTIVES: In this study, the effect of special cognitive-behavioral intervention on commitment to exercise and mental health in adults was investigated by controlling the role of the c...

Background and Aim: Quiet eye is a technique reported to improve outcomes in various tasks requiring human visual attention. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of quiet eye training on improving the performance of novice military shooters. Methods: This randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 30 undergraduate military...

Background: The study is intended to examine a model of direct and indirect effects (through mediating role of self-assessment latent variable containing self-efficacy and self-esteem components) of sports mental toughness construct (including the components of confidence, consistency and control) on perceived stress of athlete employees. Method: T...

Background and Objective: Mental health is one of the most important issues, has attracted the attention of many researchers. Since, the body and mind mutually influence each other and health of these two categories, were covers the human public health, therefore, recognize the continuous effects oneach other, seem to be necessary. Thus, the purpos...

Background: Defense mechanisms represent a crucial component of our capacity to maintain emotional homeostasis. The present study is carried out with the purpose of determining the predictability of psychological health and sport success by defense mechanisms used by elite athletes. Metrials & Methods: A sample of 385 (285 male and 100 female) elit...

The present study aimed to investigate the predictions of challenge point theory (2004) by comparing challenging and non-challenging games groups in developing manipulative fundamental motor skills. Thirty children, aged 4–6 years, from one of the kindergartens of Tehran were divided into the groups. The games were similar in both groups; however,...

The goal of the present study was to investigate the interaction between individual (mental toughness), environment (competitive atmosphere) and task (two simple and complex sport skills) in motor learning. Subjects included 104 undergraduate students whom were divided into two groups with high and low mental toughness based on mental toughness Que...

The present study aimed to make and establish psychometric features of an exercise commitment questionnaire. The primary 35 questions were administered to 210 staffs working in Isfahan Steel Company, 120 males and 90 females. Subjects had 10 years of work experience in the company and were randomly selected using stratified sampling method. Princip...

The purpose of present study was the investigated the effect of senses and speed manipulation on bimanual coordinative dynamic. Thus, 15 physical education student of Shahid Beheshti University with age range 18-25 years as subject performed in-phase and anti-phase patterns from slow to fast speed in five different sensory conditions. For investiga...

It is generally acknowledged that sensory feedback plays a dominant role in fine-tune movement control; its role in coordinative dynamics has received less attention. This study examined the extent by which absence and/or bias of different sensory modalities affect performance of bimanual coordination at different speeds. Participants (n=15; aged 1...

Background and Aims: Present study aimed to compare the individual psychological antecedents of perceived stress (self-efficacy and self-esteem) among the athlete and non-athlete staff in an industrial company. Methods: Statistical society was all persons employed in the company including managers, supervisors, experts and workers; 192 athletes and...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of working memory (WM) training on WM capacity and performance of novice karate practitioners (karateka). Methods: Research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest posttest control group design. A total of 24 karate practitioners were selected among Alborz (Alborz Province, iran) novice kara...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of working memory (WM) training on WM capacity and performance of novice karate practitioners (karateka). Methods: Research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest posttest control group design. A total of 24 karate practitioners were selected among Alborz (Alborz Province, iran) novice kara...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of working memory (WM) training on WM capacity and performance of novice karate practitioners (karateka). Methods: Research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest posttest control group design. A total of 24 karate practitioners were selected among Alborz (Alborz Province, iran) novice kara...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cooperative learning on adherence to handball exercise with emphasis on mediating role of sport self-efficacy and enjoyment. A number of 42 middle school students registered in one of the two handball training classes without awareness of group differences (cooperative learning: 20 individ...

مقدمه: اگرچه مطالعات متعددی اثربخشی تمرینات مهارت های روان شناختی )پی اس تی( را بر بهبود عملکرد ورزشی و مهارت های ذهنی نشان داده اند، اما نقاط ضعف متعدد روش شناختی و عدم سنجش یادگیری مهارت های حرکتی، اعتبار درونی و بیرونی این مطالعات را با چالش جدی مواجه کرده است ) 1(. همچنین علیرغم توافق عمومی متخصصین روان شناسی ورزشی بر نقش و اهمیت استحکام ذهنی ب...

The purpose of the present study was to describe the state of mental preparation in Iranian elite athletes. Ottawa Mental Set Assessment Tool-3 to measure mental skill, Levenson test to measure attribution, Sport Motivation Scale to measure sport motivation, and Sheared test to measure mental toughness were administered on 295 athletes who attended...

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of sensory and movement speed manipulations on bimanual coordination dynamics. Here we compared to what extent the absence and or bias of different sensory modalities affect performance of coordination of movements. Methods: Fifteen physical education students of Shahid Beheshti University...

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of sensory and movement speed manipulations on bimanual coordination dynamics. Here we compared to what extent the absence and or bias of different sensory modalities affect performance of coordination of movements. Methods: Fifteen physical education students of Shahid Beheshti University...

Review of literature indicates that a new instrument is needed to measure multiple components of sport success. The purpose of the present study was to construct a sport success scale (SSS) and to determine its psychometric properties. After utilizing the broad theoretical foundation and experts' opinion, 30-items were administered on 305 (205 men...

This study aims to draw a comparison of Visual Search Behavior and Decision Making accuracy among expert and novice Basketball referees. 38 male referees took part in the research and were divided into two groups of experts and novices (Each group consisting of 18 people). Participants took part in a video test ( 50 clips in 2 section) in which the...

To sustain long-term benefits of exercise, metacognitive-knowledge, self-regulation and goal-orientation is needed. Research had been focused on defining which type of correlation is traced by self-regulation and metacognitive-knowledge with goal-orientation in young athletic women and men. Data were derived from athletes who were chosen from four...

The key to improve attention is " learning to choose the most important information " and at the same time " tune out all other (irrelevant) areas, stimuli or actions ". The objective of this paper is determining effect of cognitive training with working memory tasks on efficiency of executive control network in table tennis players. The present pa...

Background and Aim: Immobility syndrome is the symptomsofphysical, metabolic, and mental disorder due todaily immobility andcauses disorder inbalanceof elderly people. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of yoga techniques on reducing mental symptoms of immobility syndrome in elderly women. Materials and Method: The present study...

ABSTRACT Background and Aim: Immobility syndrome is the symptomsofphysical, metabolic, and mental disorder due todaily immobility andcauses disorder inbalanceof elderly people. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of yoga techniques on reducing mental symptoms of immobility syndrome in elderly women. Materials and Method: The pre...