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Interdisciplinary Sport Research Can Better Predict Competition Performance, Identify Individual Differences, and

Ben Piggott¹, Sean Müller², Paola Chivers^3,4

¹School of Health Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

|December 21, 2020

Summary

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An interdisciplinary approach enhances understanding of sport performance by integrating physiological, perceptual-cognitive-motor, and psychological skills. This method better predicts individual differences in performance than single-discipline studies.

Keywords:

Australian football individual differences interdisciplinary research representative task design sports science

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Area of Science:

Sports Science
Performance Analysis
Motor Control

Background:

Sport performance research often uses monodisciplinary approaches, limiting a holistic understanding.
Individual, task, and environmental factors interact to influence athletic performance.
An interdisciplinary framework is needed to capture the complexity of sport performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the value of an interdisciplinary approach in understanding sport performance using Australian football (AF) as a model.
To quantify individual differences and the representativeness of task designs in AF.
To compare the predictive power of monodisciplinary versus interdisciplinary models of performance.

Main Methods:

Fifty-nine semi-professional Australian footballers completed physiological (3x1km trial), perceptual-cognitive-motor (small-sided game, SSG), and psychological (coach rating of mental toughness, MTC) assessments.
Monodisciplinary models analyzed each test's univariate prediction of disposal efficiency.
An interdisciplinary model used multivariate analysis to assess combined predictive power.

Main Results:

All individual tests (3x1km trial, SSG, MTC) predicted disposal efficiency in univariate models.
The small-sided game (SSG) uniquely predicted coaches' ratings.
The interdisciplinary model (SSG and MTC) demonstrated a superior fit for predicting disposal efficiency compared to univariate models.
The SSG, a highly representative task, contributed more to performance prediction than the MTC rating.

Conclusions:

An interdisciplinary approach provides a more comprehensive understanding of sport performance than monodisciplinary methods.
This approach effectively identifies individual differences in performance metrics like disposal efficiency.
The representativeness of tasks within an interdisciplinary framework significantly impacts predictive accuracy for competition performance.