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THE APPLICATION OF PETTLEP IMAGERY EXERCISE TO COMPETITIVE

ANXIETY AND CONCENTRATION IN SURABAYA ARCHERY ATHLETES
NANIK INDAHWATI & KOLEKTUS OKY RISTANTO
Faculty of, State University of Surabaya, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
The main idea of this research is to examine the affectation of application Imagery PETTLEP
(Physical, Environment, Task, Timing, Emotion, Perspective) exercise which given to the Surabayas archery athletes in
preparation for Pekan Olahraga Provinsi (Porprov) East Java 2016. The affectation of Imagery PETTLEP exercise, then
would be attributed to the athletes competitive Anxiety and concentration when they facing the competition. This research
was did in three week with nine treatments. This research was quasi experiment research by using quantitative approach,
seen from point of view getting the data by using questionnaire; competitive anxiety (Sport Competitive Anxiety Test) and
concentration test (Grid Concentration Test) with research design one group pre-test post-test. The subject of this research
was 19 athletes who are joined in Porprov V East Java. The next step after gained data from the research was preceding
the data by using paired sample t-test. Based on the result from competitive anxiety questionnaire, the lowest value on

The result from concentration test was 12 for the lowest value in pre-test and 22 for the highest value. Meanwhile, in the
post test, the lowest value was 8 and the highest value was 22. The result of paired sample t-test was in significant level 0.05
with (df)=18. It could be known that t-calculation from competitive anxiety variable 8.060 and t-calculation for
concentration variable 5.729 was bigger than t-table 2.101. In conclusion, it had significant difference between pre-test and
post-test in competitive anxiety variable and concentration variable on Surabayas archery athletes. It could be found that
it had decreasing competitive anxiety at 6.9% and the increasing of concentration at 20.60%. The result of the research

Original Article

pre-test was 12 and the highest value was 25. Meanwhile, in post test, the lowest value was 14 and the highest value was 24.

shown that Imagery PETLLEP exercise had affectation on competitive anxiety by decreasing the level of competitive
anxiety at 6.9% and the increasing of concentration was 20.60% in three weeks of research and nine meetings with
Surabayas archery athletes.
KEYWORDS: Imagery, PETTLEP Exercise, Competitive Anxiety, Concentration

Received: May 26, 2016; Accepted: Jun 10, 2016; Published: Jun 16, 2016; Paper Id.: IJESRJUN201615

INTRODUCTION
Background/ Objectives and Goals
One of the developing sports in Indonesia is Archery. Several national and international archery
championships grow competent archery athletes. It is proven by the opinion of the Noerbai (2001: 21) even though
its development irregularities, but this branch sport shows good achievement definitely. This sport trains physical,
mental, and shooting technique. In addition, archery has some psychological support for human. Human is a part of
body and soul which one of them affect each other. But, every human condition always do not same especially the
mood in training or game because of pressure that they get. Any emotional feeling whether it is joy, anger, or sorrow
can affect the condition of the body. So, it can influence the balance of humans physical and mental. Those
pressures that occur called anxiety. Anxiety is a response to certain situations that threaten, and is normal occurred

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with the development, change, new experience or that has never been done as well as in finding self-identity and the
meaning of life. The anxiety in a certain level can increase performance (Kaplan, et al, in Adisasmito, 2007: 90). While
according to Pate, et al. (1993: 86) anxiety cause decreasing attention flexibility of athlete, so it interfere performance. This
condition makes the success of individual is difficult to be predicted. Anxiety is an emotion that appears due to the
interpretation and assessment of the situation faced (Ciptaningtyas, 2012:2). Anxiety is a common reaction or normal
occurs, for example face a match. The athletes who cannot control the anxiety finally fail because their anxious and easily
nervous feeling can make them quit (Gunarsa, 2004:75). Cognitive component of anxiety appears as a result of fear of
negative evaluation of social environment, fear of failure and lack of confidence. While the somatic component of the
anxiety is a physiological response from the perception such as increased heartbeat, respiratory and muscle contractions
(Lavalle et al. In Ciptaningtyas, 2012:2).
Besides anxiety in sport especially achievement sports, there is an important psychological factor which can
support or interfere athletes achievements. The factor is concentration. The top athletes appearance can be achieved when
his appearance in the top of the optimal energy. According to Nasution (1996) in sport, concentration has very important
role. If concentration of someone disturbed when he does sport movement, it is caused by many problems whether it was in
exercise or match. Those problems such as reducing the accuracy of the movement, cannot apply strategy because does not
know what should do which cause lack of confidence even lose it. Finally he will difficult to achieve optimal performance
base on his ability. It agrees with the Nideffers statement (2000), that concentration is important for athlete to reach the
peak achievement. The concentration helps reaching the condition that ready to compete physically and mentally. From
conditions above, athlete needs special exercise which can overcome prejudice conditions. The alternative to overcome the
quality of the athlete is doing imagery exercises (Cox, 2007). Imagery is one of technique or mental exercises that must be
understand by athletes (Komarudin, 2013). Imagery allows individuals utilize his all senses to create or display the existing
movement pattern in his brain memories well. The processes are observing, noticing and remembering the pattern of the
movement in the brain. The benefits from the imagery exercise are to learn or repeat the new movements; improve a wrong
or imperfect movement and improve the ability of facing many problems. Vealey & Greenleaf (2001) define imagery is a
form of the actual simulation of some real experiences through senses (see, feel and listen), but all experiences occur in the
brain.
In the imagery exercises will be occurred the process of visualization. The process of an athlete uses his skill to
see himself in his own mind. He calls and visualizes his own reflection in imagery process. Not only visualize technique
but also athlete will remember several parts of the match such as place and situation of the match. They will be combined
as an experience in imagery process. The more senses which use in imagery, the visualization will be clearer.
(Valley & Greenleaf, 2001).
Imagery technique often use in sports because it makes good effect on the performance and exercise. Studies show
that the use of imagery can reduce the anxiety on the sports performance (Mousavi & Meshkini, 2011). Imagery exercise
gives positive impact on the athletes performance to his success. This is in line with Weinberg and Gould opinion (1995)
about developing imagery ability makes physical condition and psychological someone will be better. It can improve
concentration, increase self-confidence to develop how he will perform.
It has been described above that competitive anxiety is the emotional or feeling caused by interpretation about
situation or environment. Imagery technique can be used as one of the alternatives to solve competitive anxiety. By this
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technique athletes will be faced to a situation that cause anxiety by creating a picture of anxiety situation in his mind and
asked to show the techniques or condition that they do to overcome them. Imagery exercise can increase self-awareness,
control the emotions, reduce pain, control the emotion that related with appearance and improve the preparation strategy. In
this research, researchers involves archery athlete because archery is individual sport which athlete performance influenced
by many factor.
Based on the above description, it is seen that the anxiety of influence on the performance of athletes in the face
of the game. Therefore, response towards anxiety in the face of the match needs to be done. One of the efforts to overcome
the anxiety then to do a mental exercise, one of them using the imagery technique. The results of research conducted by
Mousavi (2007) entitled 'the effect of mental imagery upon reduction of anxiety during athlete sport performance' suggests
that the practice of imagery significantly reduce anxiety and improve the performance of athletes in appearance. It is
reinforced with research results from Smith and Collins 2004; Smith et.al., 2001, 2007 mentions that imagery with
PETTLEP exercise can increase performance and speed up getting solutions in cognitive tasks. Therefore, the authors of
this research focusing by taking the title of 'the influence of PETTLEP exercise Program (Physical, Environment, tasks,
Timing, Learning, Emotion, and Perspective) Imagery against Competitive Anxiety and concentration On Surabaya
Archery Athletes'.

METHODS
The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of mental practice implementation imagery uses PETTLEP
(Physical, Environment, Tasks, Timing, Emotion, and Perspective) model against the competitive anxiety and
concentration. Design research using one group before and after study or be referred to by one sample pretest/posttest
design. In this study, this type of research is quasi experiment with quantitative approach, meaning that a study done
strictly to learn causal relations between variables (Infallible, 2012:65). The samples on this research totaled 19 athletes
archery Surabaya city. The research was carried out on 2 place namely field archery KONI East Java Kertajaya Indah JL.
Surabaya and Banyuwangi, Tile Field and executed may 12 June 13, 2015.
Data captured includes competitive anxiety level data, the data is obtained by providing the instruments in the
form of the now and the data results of the archery shots. The use of the now is expected to know or reveal the magnitude
of the competitive level of anxiety on athletes in facing Porprov match with archery 50 meters.
The now used in this research is the now SCAT (Sport Competition Anxiety Test) (Martens et al. 1990) contained
on the website brianmac sport coach. It also used the test concentration i.e. module Grid Concentration Exercise adopted
from d. v. Harris and b. l. Harris (1998). Data retrieval will be held twice taking i.e. pretest (before given a mental exercise
imagery PETTLEP model) and posttest (after given mental exercise imagery PETLLEP model).
The grant of preferential treatment in the form of PETTLEP Imagery is executed before the athletes do exercises;
this is in accordance with the opinion of the Mylsidayu (2014:101) exercise imagery exercise before it can be given as a
supplement to the interrupted wait time the actual exercise. The treatment is carried out using the help of mp3 audio that
has been prepared and contains Guide to doing imagery. The implementation led by coaches, athletes is given the freedom
to take the place as comfortable as possible according to the athlete's personal. After that, the coach gives instructions to
follow the guidance of the audio.

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RESULTS
The overall the data collected include test results of competitive anxiety and concentration on archery athletes
Surabaya city. Pre-built data retrieval test (pre-test) which is done before the subject get treatment with the use of
PETTLEP imagery on May 14, 2015 at Surabaya Open Archery Tournament 2015. The process of granting preferential
treatment is carried out as many as 9 times, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Post-data retrieval test (post-test) done
on the Race Weekend Sports provinces (Porprov) of East Java on 9 and 10 of June 2015.
The overall data obtained will then be analyzed using descriptive statistics and statistical analysis of the process of
with differential using program SPSS (Statistical Program for Social Science) for Windows Release 20.00. Before the test
the hypothesis made in advance done test prerequisite analysis with test normality with significant degrees of 0.05.
The hypothesis were examined using the paired sample t-tests (paired test) because the pairing data obtained between
pre-test and post test.
Based on the analysis of the calculation is done, the next description data from the research results can be further
described as follows:

Figure 1: The Average Value of Pre-Test Anxiety

The above description of the diagram can be known that 19 athletes from archery Surabaya to the average value of
pre-test anxiety competitive i.e. 20.57 and average value of competitive anxiety test post-namely of 19.15. The average
values for pre-test the concentration of 10.47 and average value of post-test concentration i.e. of 12.63.
Concentration test result data description and competitive anxiety gives an overview of the results of the pre-test,
post-test, the average of the variable concentration and competitive anxiety. Data the results of pre-and post test-test of
competitive anxiety showed a decrease in the level of anxiety is a significant competitive after being given preferential
treatment over 9 times the treatment. It can be seen from the average pre-test of 20.58 and post-test decreased to 19.16 with
difference the difference of average 1.42, so based on the difference between the average showed a decrease in the level of
competitive anxiety after being given the treatment.
Additionally, on an increase in the concentration of the test results, which in pre-test has average 10.47 while on
post-test average increased to 12.63? This shows the difference in average by 2.16 after being given the treatment.
To know the difference PETTLEP Imagery exercise influence towards competitive anxiety and concentration then
it should be able to compare the results of pre-and post test-test on each variable, then do the test-t in SPSS applications are
known as paired t-test. The results of the data processing are presented in the form of table 1.
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Table 1: The Results of the Data Processing Using SPSS Tool

Variable
N Nam
o
e
1 RTV
BNP
2
3 MAB
ASF
4
5 NDP
6 PKN
LLD
7
8 NVA
9 AYM
10 DWH
11 SPV
12 AND
13 DPS
14 TSR
15 LTF
16 JBR
17 DAH
18 WBP
19 AWA
Total
Mean

Competitive anxiety
PrePostDifferent
test
test
19,00 18,00
-1,00
20,00 18,00
-2,00
20,00 18,00
-2,00
25,00 24,00
-1,00
20,00 19,00
-1,00
21,00 19,00
-2,00
24,00 21,00
-3,00
18,00 17,00
-1,00
23,00 22,00
-1,00
19,00 18,00
-1,00
20,00 19,00
-1,00
20,00 18,00
-2,00
19,00 16,00
-3,00
23,00 22,00
-1,00
23,00 21,00
-2,00
23,00 23,00
0,00
15,00 14,00
-1,00
20,00 19,00
-1,00
19,00 18,00
-1,00
391,0 364,0
-27,00
0
0
20,58 19,16
-1,42

Concentration
PrePostDifferent
test
test
8,00
11,00
3,00
22,00 22,00
0,00
7,00
10,00
3,00
9,00
12,00
3,00
15,00 15,00
0,00
14,00 16,00
2,00
7,00
11,00
4,00
15,00 16,00
1,00
8,00
9,00
1,00
14,00 13,00
-1,00
8,00
11,00
3,00
12,00 14,00
2,00
8,00
10,00
2,00
9,00
12,00
3,00
7,00
9,00
2,00
6,00
8,00
2,00
11,00 12,00
1,00
8,00
14,00
6,00
11,00 15,00
4,00
199,0 240,0
41,00
0
0
10,47 12,63
2,16

Based on the table above indicates the level of significance of each competitive anxiety and concentration of
variables have the same value i.e. 0.000, in other words the p 0.05 means there is a difference between the pre-and post
test-test on a variable of competitive anxiety and anxiety Decrease concentration. Competitive and increase in
concentration is not on the same level, as seen from t-count on competitive anxiety of 8.060 variables whereas-5.729 at
variable concentrations.
Based on the value t-count and the value of t-table, then it can be said that Ho was rejected and accepted because
the value of t-count Ha (5,729) > t-table (2,101). In other words that there is a significant difference in variable
concentrations between pre and post test-test athletes archery Surabaya city.
It can be concluded that the practice of PETTLEP Imagery positive effect toward decreasing anxiety and increased
concentration on competitive athletes archery Surabaya, but PETTLEP Imagery exercise a positive effect against more
competitive than the anxiety level of concentration.
The Influence of Exercise PETTLEP Imagery
Imagery form of exercise used to help athletes make the visualization more real with regards to match or
competition (Mylsidayu, 2014:94). According to Hidayat (2008) that the practice of imagery shadow in the minds of
individuals can include anything that is seen, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted). As also stated by Gunarsa, imagery

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refers to the process feel that is very intense, as if feeling the actual circumstances (Gunarsa, 2004:103).
The results of this study showed that the test results of competitive anxiety decreased-1.42 with 6.9% and the
percentage of the test results with the percentage concentration increased 2.16 20.60% of initial tests. Further views on
paired samples test for each variable (paired test) stated differently between the start and end of test tests on competitive
anxiety and anxiety. If seen from the percentage who obtained it appears that exercise PETTLEP Imagery more
concentrations influence on athletes compared to competitive anxiety. According to Subroto this could be due to the
anxiety level within a reasonable level can transform into alertness and motivation so that the condition to support athletes
in concentrate (Subroto, 2002).
Though the percentage decline in the competitive anxiety produced only 6.9% but it is progress that looks real
from the process of administering the treatment. A small percentage could happen due to the intensity of the giving of the
treatment is still too little IE 9 times. Valley Greenleaf, 2001 argues that in order to get optimal results, exercise imagery
should be done every day. The intensity of the workout routines lets help the athlete to take advantage of all sensory-to
create or display the return movement patterns that exist in the memory of his brain as well. The more senses involved
increasingly clear picture is formed. So if this imagery given exercise regularly then the result of exercise PETTLEP
imagery given will be more optimally.
Linkages with Previous Research
Athletes often make the bigger picture not good about himself or an opponent's hand. Consider the superior
opponent, the ability of the techniques is still low and environmentally stressful race often appears in the minds of the
athletes when preparing yourself in a race. Negative effects appearing athletes feel inferior and end up feeling anxious. If
anxiety persists continuously then the appearance of athletes will be distracted. The anxiety that arises before the race will
reduce the concentration and performance.
The awarding of the imagery significantly contribute towards positive performance, so that the appearance of
being optimal. Wright Smith (2007) also revealed in his research that the PETTLEP imagery very effective exercises
conducted to enhance performance when combined with physical exercise. Barr Hall (in Hartono, 2010:31) described that
the use of imagery increases the competition situation before it starts. On the research of Barr Hall revealed that athletes
can feel each part of the body used in achieving maximum performance. The higher level or skill level athletes it will have
an effect on the ability of doing imagery. Exercise imagery provided on this research is a step strategy that will be
implemented in the race for treatment on drilled athletes apparently successfully applied properly at the time of the race.
The treatment given is used to sharpen the ability of the athlete to imagine things that are already very known and
envision a specific skills, as well as to imagine the overall appearance of the well through the seven elements
(Physical, Environment, tasks, Timing, Learning, Emotion, Perspective) (Holmes and Collins, 2001, 2002). Deficiencies
that occur when the grant of preferential treatment or at the time of exercise is the athlete had never given PETTLEP
exercise imagery exclusively. Therefore in this research exercise PETTLEP imagery has a percentage of positive influence
that are not too big against variables bound. Athletes need enough time to conform to the shape of the imagery exercise.

CONCULSIONS
According to Gunarsa (2004:109) effective imagery practice on the athletes to do it many times and is supported
by the role of coach to push athletes do exercises independently. It is also supported by the opinion of Mylsidayu (2014:97)
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stating specifically that the practice of imagery should be done every day. The length of time the exercise imagery of
nomore than 20 minutes, i.e. each 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after exercise techniques. Thus, exercise using
PETTLEP imagery influenced by the frequency of exercise.
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