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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fortes, Leonardo S.
• Berriel, Guilherme P.
• Faro, Heloiana
• Freitas-Júnior, Carlos G.
• Peyré-Tartaruga, Leonardo A.

Titel

Can Prolongate Use of Social Media Immediately Before Training Worsen High Level Male Volleyball Players’ Visuomotor Skills?

Ist Teil von

• Perceptual and motor skills, 2022-12, Vol.129 (6), p.1790-1803

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Our aim was to analyze the effect of mental fatigue caused by prolonged social media use on high-level volleyball players' visuomotor skills. Eighteen high-level male young volleyball players participated in this randomized, counterbalanced, crossover design. All participants underwent a 2-week experiment in which we measured their response times when performing a visuomotor task with and without mental fatigue inducement through repeated use of social media immediately before training sessions. In the control condition, participants watched TV for 30-minutes, and in the social media condition, they used a social media app (Instagram®) on smartphones for 30-minutes. We found a significant Condition x Time interaction on visuomotor task response time (p = 0.03), but there was no significant main effect of either Time or Condition. Mental fatigue, induced by repeated app-based social media use for 30-minutes immediately before training sessions, affected elite male volleyball players’ visuomotor skills.