Influence of punishments associated with task outcomes in physical and mental efforts performed by semi-elite soccer players during training tasks.

Punishing application associated with the task outcomes is a familiar strategy used by soccer coaches during training, but it has been mainly remained in the research background. To date, no previous studies have addressed the effects of punishments on soccer players' physical and mental efforts dur...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology Vol. 23; no. 8; pp. 1440 - 1462
Autores principales: Díaz-García, Jesús, Luis del Campo, Vicente, Barbosa-Torres, Carlos, González-Ponce, Inmaculada, López-Gajardo, Miguel Ángel, García-Calvo, Tomás
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2025
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          Díaz-García, Jesús
          Luis del Campo, Vicente
          Barbosa-Torres, Carlos
          González-Ponce, Inmaculada
          López-Gajardo, Miguel Ángel
          García-Calvo, Tomás
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          Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
          Behavioral Imaging Dynamics Center, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy
          Faculty of Education, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
          Faculty of Teacher Training, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
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        Punishment
        Task performance
        Cognitive load
        Soccer players
        Eye tracking
        Physical activity
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          Task performance
          Cognitive load
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          Eye tracking
          Physical activity
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        eye-tracking
        mental fatigue
        physical load
        Punishments
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        eye-tracking
        mental fatigue
        physical load
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      ab: Punishing application associated with the task outcomes is a familiar strategy used by soccer coaches during training, but it has been mainly remained in the research background. To date, no previous studies have addressed the effects of punishments on soccer players' physical and mental efforts during on-field training sessions. Voluntarily, 40 semi-elite male soccer players from two Spanish teams of the same club participated in the study (M = 22.90 yrs, SD = 5.60 yrs), performing two training sessions with the same tasks, but different in the use or non-use of punishments associated with the task outcomes. Physical load was registered using Polar Team and Ratio of Perceived Exertion. Mental load was estimated by the NASA-Task Load Index and mental fatigue was collected using a Visual Analogue Scale. A portable eye tracker was used to seek the effects of punishment manipulation on ocular metrics. After training, players achieved higher values of peak and mean heart rate, peak and mean speed, distance/minute, and number of sprints at the session with punishments, compared to the session without them. The punishments also influenced participants' eye movement metrics because changes were found in pupil diameter, latency and velocity of saccades, and number of saccades and blinks when compared to the two training sessions. However, no differences were found between sessions for subjective mental load and fatigue variables. These findings have practical implications to the design of soccer training tasks because this emotional constraint influenced the physical load and objective mental load of the soccer players, but not their subjective measures of mental load and fatigue.
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