THE EFFECT ON SKT MEDITATION TRAINING ON ARCHERY SKILL FOR EXCELLENCE
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This experimental research aimed to study the results of 1) a comparison of stress coping skills and Archery accuracy between experimental and control groups after SKT meditation, 2) a comparison of Archery shooting scores between the experimental group and the control group after training the SKT meditation. The samples were 30 archery athletes for excellence in the recurve type by purposive sampling, then, they were divided into two groups as 15 people for each group (9 males and 6 females) using the matching method, to begin with, pre-testing at before trial to seek average accuracy for archery skill. then, making an array of the scores as No. 1 - 2 for the 1st pair and No. 3 - 4 for the 2nd pair, respectively. Research tools were 1) The SKT meditation training program which was used to practice 3 days per week for 8 weeks, 2) The international shooting program (Archery Association of Thailand, 2023), and 3) The Questionnaire of Athletic Coping Skills Inventory - 28 (Supatcharin Khemarat, 2014). The data were statistically analyzed to compare the mean between the experimental group and the control group by using a t - test (Independent). The results were found the differences in stress - coping skills and archery scores after the 8th week of training between the experimental and control groups were statistically different at the .01 level.
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