Emotional state influence on performance: Experimental study

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is to experimentally determine the influence of the emotional state and the emotional manipulation in sports performance. Method: 126 college athletes (Mage = 22.79; DT = 4.46), 54 women (42.86%) y 7.78 year of sports experience (DT = 3.20), participated in this study, which measured optimism (LOT-R) and emotional state (POMS-VIC) before and after performing an experimental test using digital manual dynamometer TKK-5401. Results: Considering the different groups (gender, experience, level, optimism and experimental group), it emphasizes the non-appearance of significant differences (pre-post). Conclusions: Results have shown both the emotional state and the effective manipulations modify the performance slightly negative emotional manipulations significantly increase the yield obtained in the task.