Serna, S. (Sofia) (2021) Perceived neurocognitive traits and injury occurrence in youth talented team sport athletes: reliability and validity of the Perceived Neurocognitive Traits Questionnaire (PNTQ). thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
The present study aimed to evaluate construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and discriminative validity of the Perceived Neurocognitive Traits Questionnaire (PNTQ). Participants were 85 talented youth team sport athletes (age: 14.66 ± 1.4 years) from the Topsport Talent School in Groningen. For the 39-item PNTQ, five predicted meaningful subscales (‘Visual-spatial awareness and visual processing’, ‘Inhibitory control, response inhibition and interference control’, ‘Risk-taking’, ‘Peaking under/coping with pressure’, and ‘Attention, concentration and dual tasking’) were not identified with a principal component analysis. Internal consistency was partially confirmed with a total Cronbach’s α of .73 with values ranging between .18 and .79 for the separate subscales. A subsample of 14 athletes (age: 14.55 ± .6 years) completed the PNTQ twice to assess test-retest reliability. Absolute and relative test-retest reliability were moderate to good. ICC values for the subscales ranged between .551 and .784. There were no significant differences between injured and non-injured athletes on the different PNTQ subscales. However, follow up analyses showed that non-injured athletes scored lower on the subscales ‘Risk-taking’ and ‘Peaking under/coping with pressure’. This study supported the reliability of the PNTQ but not the validity of this questionnaire. However, information from follow-up analysis could provide coaches and other professionals with insight into which neurocognitive traits can be related to injury occurrence, such as risk-taking and coping with pressure. Future research should focus on improving the validity of the PNTQ.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Benjaminse, dr. A. and Elferink-Gemser, dr. M. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2022 14:35 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2022 14:35 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3319 |
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