<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The present study was undertaken with an objective to study the effect of psychotherapeutic training on improvement of coordination in performance of soccer skills. Thirty six young male soccer players of city of Kota Bharu in Kelantan province of Malaysia, in the age range of 18 to 24 years volunteered as participants, who were assessed with dispositional and transient anxiety by employing </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Thereafter, they were randomly categorized into three groups; viz.</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> Group A &ndash; </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\">consisted of participants of</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> control group; Group B &ndash; is referred to the Experimental Group I, who </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">received Skin Conductance (</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Sc) Biofeedback </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\">intervention</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"> training andGroup C, hereafter the Experimental Group II,</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\" lang=\"EN-IN\"> who received Abbreviated Progressive Muscle Relaxation (APMR) training</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\">. All the participants were subjected to evaluation of transient anxiety; simple reaction ability; neuromuscular steadiness; motor coordination and psychobiological measures of tonic and phasic skin conductance activity as measure of pre-intervention analyses. Thereafter the participants of intervention conditions were introduced to their respective intervention training programs following standardize protocol </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY;\" lang=\"EN-MY\">(20 minutes/day; 2 days/week for 6 weeks). Mid-term analyses (all the parameters of pre-intervention analyses were repeated) were done three weeks after the introduction of intervention of intervention sessions. Thereafter the similar protocol of intervention was followed for three more weeks. Post-intervention analyses following similar analyses protocols were done on all of the participants, and the findings revealed that both Sc biofeedback intervention and APMR intervention had beneficial impacts on coordination performance observed in the players. Furthermore, both of the interventions have been observed to result in alteration in the psychobiological make-up of the participants, which finally resulted in improvement in coordination performance.</span></p>
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<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-ansi-language: EN-MY;\" lang=\"EN-MY\">Keywords: soccer; psychotherapy; coordination</span></em></p>