Somatic anxiety and skill level: The effects on skilled performance
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Skill level (Gray, 2004) and state of arousal (Arent & Landers, 2003) have been shown to affect task execution. However, the relative influence of these factors on performance when attentional focus is directed towards different features of the task is less clear. Expert (n = 9) and novice (n = 9) participants completed a simulated shooting in which they fired and reholstered a Glock 17 handgun under three conditions. In the strategic skill focus (SSF) condition, participants were instructed to report the position of their trigger finger on hearing an audible stimulus. In the non-strategic skill-focused (NSSF) condition, they were instructed to report the position of their shoulder, whereas the control condition required no audible identification. Participants’ shooting performance was averaged across trials and skill level was categorized based on overall shooting performance. The CSAI-2 was used to categorize participants by their level of state somatic anxiety (SSA). For skill l
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Skill level (Gray, 2004) and state of arousal (Arent & Landers, 2003) have been shown to affect task execution. However, the relative influence of these factors on performance when attentional focus is directed towards different features of the task is less clear. Expert (n = 9) and novice (n = 9) participants completed a simulated shooting in which they fired and reholstered a Glock 17 handgun under three conditions. In the strategic skill focus (SSF) condition, participants were instructed to report the position of their trigger finger on hearing an audible stimulus. In the non-strategic skill-focused (NSSF) condition, they were instructed to report the position of their shoulder, whereas the control condition required no audible identification. Participants’ shooting performance was averaged across trials and skill level was categorized based on overall shooting performance. The CSAI-2 was used to categorize participants by their level of state somatic anxiety (SSA). For skill l
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