Imagery ability and imagery use in individual and team sports

2014

The purpose of this research was to examine whether individual and team sport athletes differ in their imagery use and imagery ability, and to examine whether level of sport participation or weekly sport involvement are variables that differentiate between athletes on the basis of their levels of imagery ability and imagery use. Two measures were conducted. The Sport Imagery Ability Measure (SIAM) is a 48-item self-report measure that uses four sport related scenes to examine the dimensional, sensorial, and emotional characteristics of generating images. The Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ) is a 30-item self-report measure that examines five characteristics associated with the cognitive an…