The effect of brain dominance according to the trait (male and female students) on cognitive achievement of tennis

Abstract

The research aims to know the effect of brain dominance patterns and trait (male and female students) and the interaction between them on the usual achievement in tennis. To achieve this goal, the researcher developed a set of hypotheses for the independent effects of variables and the interaction between them, which are hypotheses of the independent effects of dominance and hypotheses related to the effect of the trait (male and female students) and its interaction with brain dominance. The researcher used the independent factorial analysis of variance design as an experimental design for the research, and the number of male students was (48) and the number of female students was (24), thus the total number was (72), who are third-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Babylon for the academic year (2020-2021). The researcher standardized the questionnaire (Dayan, 2005) to control the brain, also, a cognitive achievement test for tennis was constructed and used as the main means of collecting data. After confirming the validity of these methods, they were applied to the research community, and it was found that students have two patterns of brain dominance (right-handed dominance pattern and left-handed dominance pattern). The researcher reached results from which conclusions were drawn for the current research, including that whatever the pattern (brain control pattern or trait), it does not affect the cognitive achievement of tennis. Therefore, the researcher recommends not taking into account the classification of students according to brain control and trait (male students, female students) when teaching tennis. He also recommends benefiting from experimental designs (factorial variance analysis design) in the fields of physical education research.