Title:

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FAST- AND SLOW- TEMPO MUSIC PLAYED

DURING VOLLEYBALL TRAINING IN A NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAM

Writer:
Attila Szabo

Year:
2004

Summary:
This article was chosen because it is compatible and related to the topic I want to
study. This study examined whether music could benefit the training experience in a
British national league volleyball team. Nine female volleyball players were tested in
two identical studies in three different training sessions: control (no music), slowmusic, and fast music.

Problem Statement:
Distraction from fatigue during exercise in presence of background music is related
to selective attention resulting from limited information processing capacity. In the
later inquiry, affect has decreased significantly in the patients who exercised
without music.

Objective:
1. To examined whether music could benefit the training experience in a British
national league volleyball team.

Limitation of Study:
This study focused only to the players in British national league volleyball team and
was not focused to gender.

Previous Studies Review:

Past study in this research related to musics tempo and rhythm to maximize
benefits in exercises.

Methodologi
This study is a qualitative research which using indept-interview to collect data from
respondent. Research data collected from several interviews. Qualitative data
collected and gathered in words and arranged with categories. It was later named
and described thoroughly.

Instrument:
This study used indept-interview and all questions are structured interview. There
are two sections which is section A regarding with respondent personal information
while section B is related to studies objectives.

Respondent:
Respondent selection was done using a purposive sampling. The players and the
coach of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) Womens National League Volleyball team
consented in writing to participate in the study. The mean age of the participants
was 23 years, weight 67.3kg and 167cm height.

Data collection:
Data for this research was collected from several interview series. Qualitative data
was gathered in words and was arranged according to their categories. It was later
named and described.

Data analysis:
Psychological data obtained from the study were analyzed with three by two
multivariate repeated measures analysis of variance (MRMANOVA). This main
analysis yielded a significant multivariate condition by period interaction.

Findings:
Findings show that the results are in full concordance with the proposed models or
theory linking music with athletic performance. Music acts as distracter of the
perceived effort, as observed here with the fast tempo music. Music also could
affect arousal levels, which yielded in the current research lower scores of
Liveliness after training with slow-tempo music in the background. Athletes
showed clear preference for their usual training, and equal preference for the fasttempo music training, in contrast to slow-music training.

Conclusion:
Music that matches the pace, or tempo, of movement (fast music) in sport may be
beneficial, whereas a strongly asynchronous music (slow music) may be
detrimental. This research shows that playing fast-tempo music during training in an
elite female volleyball team reduces perceived effort measured at the midpoint of
the training.