EFFECT OF MENTAL IMAGERY TRAINING PROGRAM ON KINESTHETIC IMAGERY AND VISUAL IMAGERY OF HANDBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of imagery intervention on a team sport like Handball, with emphasis on psychological variables. To find out the effectiveness of mental imagery intervention program for the total duration of twelve weeks on selected Visual imagery and Kinesthetic Imagery of handball players. For this study Visual imagery and Kinesthetic Imagery are dependent variables. The population for the present study will be Nashik District Senior Handball Male player’s age group between 18 to 25 years were selected as subjects. The convenience sample method was used for this study. To achieve the purpose of this present study 60 number of Handball players of Nashik district were selected. For this study, there were four groups such as Experimental (Elite), Control (Elite), Experimental (Novice), and Control (Novice) within 15 subjects each group. The imagery training considered of having auditory listen to a imagery tape. Each participant of experimental groups should listen the auditory and visual for 15 minutes prior to kinesthetic and visual imagery performance in handball. The control groups were not given any treatment. The pre and post-test data were collected before and after training period of both experimental and control groups. The Analysis of Paired sample‘t’ test was used to investigate the effect of mental imagery training programme on kinesthetic and visual imagery of handball players. Imagery training programme has significant impact on movement and visualization among the players of imagery training compared to players of control groups