Supervised pattern recognition of archers’ relative psychological coping skills as a component for a better archery performance

• DOI: 10.4314/jfas.v10i1s.33
• Publication Date: 2018-01-15
• Authors: Zahraa K. Taha; Rabiu Muazu Musa; Mohamad Razali Ab...; Ahmad Bisyri Husi...; Norlaila Azura Kosni; Siti Musliha Mat-...; Aleesha Adnan; Hafizan Juahir

The current study explores the most significant psychological skills needed for the accomplishment of high archery scores and determines discriminating psychological coping skills needed for archery performance. 32 archers completed inventory before their shooting tests. Multivariate techniques of principal component analysis, hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis and discriminant were applied. rotated PCA indicates 3 parameters containing 6 components (Pcs). first Pcs reveal high loadings from three skills. second disclose two skills, while third demonstrate a loading only one skill. HACA classified archers into classes viz. High-performance group low performance group. DA discriminates classes with an excellent accuracy 93.55%. Keywords: archery; pattern recognition; skills; multivariate