Effect of Some Thinking Strategies on Anxiety and Catecholamine and the Level of Performance in Rhythmical Exercises

This research aims at designing a program of mental training to know its effect on some mental thinking (skilful task mood words for performance) and some mental skills (relaxation mental imagery attention concentration) anxiety catecholamine and the level of performance in rhythmical exercises. Hypotheses of the research state that there are statistically significant differences between the pre post measurements in strategies of thinking, mental skills, anxiety, catecholamine and the level of skilful performance in rhythmical exercises on behalf of post measurement. Improvement percentage differs between the pre post measurements of the research sample in variables under research. The researcher used the experimental method with a design of a single experimental group by following the prepost measurements on a sample of 6 female third graders specialized in rhythmical exercises. The program lasted 10 weeks as much as 3 training units weekly in 60 minutes for the training unit. Physical and mental measures and tests and analysis of catecholamine in urine were used for 24 hours and the level of skilful performance in rhythmical exercises. The research results were that proper mental thinking training is the fundamental step to apply thinking strategies during training and the situations of stress exam and that using thinking strategies in skilful task and mood words during performance with the followed program of skilful training in college leads to raise skilful performance level for female students in rhythmical exercises.