The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers
Smartphone app-use patterns will predict professional golfers’ athletic performance, and the use time of serious apps would be associated with improved performance. This longitudinal 4-week observation of 79 professional golfers assessed golf handicaps and smartphone app-use patterns at the start of...
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| author | Jea Woog Lee Jae Jun Nam Kyung Doo Kang Doug Hyun Han |
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| description | Smartphone app-use patterns will predict professional golfers’ athletic performance, and the use time of serious apps would be associated with improved performance. This longitudinal 4-week observation of 79 professional golfers assessed golf handicaps and smartphone app-use patterns at the start of the Korean professional golf season and 2 and 4 weeks later. We classified use as social networking, entertainment, serious apps, and others. Use time of entertainment apps increased for non-improved golfers but did not change for improved golfers. Use time of serious apps increased for improved golfers and decreased for non-improved ones. Changes in golf handicaps were positively correlated with changes in entertainment app use time and negatively correlated with changes in serious app use time. Professional golfers’ sports performance was not associated with smartphone use time but was with the smartphone app type. The management of smartphone app-use patterns is important for professional golfers’ performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b125e8b950c47fc8f17f02c5d07ed162022-12-21T18:51:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-05-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.678691678691The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional GolfersJea Woog Lee0Jae Jun Nam1Kyung Doo Kang2Doug Hyun Han3Department of Sport Technology and Information, Chung-Ang University, Anseong, South KoreaDepartment of Golf, Korea Golf University, Hoeng Seong, South KoreaDepartment of Psychiatry, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Psychiatry, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, South KoreaSmartphone app-use patterns will predict professional golfers’ athletic performance, and the use time of serious apps would be associated with improved performance. This longitudinal 4-week observation of 79 professional golfers assessed golf handicaps and smartphone app-use patterns at the start of the Korean professional golf season and 2 and 4 weeks later. We classified use as social networking, entertainment, serious apps, and others. Use time of entertainment apps increased for non-improved golfers but did not change for improved golfers. Use time of serious apps increased for improved golfers and decreased for non-improved ones. Changes in golf handicaps were positively correlated with changes in entertainment app use time and negatively correlated with changes in serious app use time. Professional golfers’ sports performance was not associated with smartphone use time but was with the smartphone app type. The management of smartphone app-use patterns is important for professional golfers’ performance.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.678691/fullgolfsmartphoneapplicationsperformancehandicap |
| spellingShingle | Jea Woog Lee Jae Jun Nam Kyung Doo Kang Doug Hyun Han The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers Frontiers in Psychology golf smartphone applications performance handicap |
| title | The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers |
| title_full | The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers |
| title_short | The Effect of Smartphone App-Use Patterns on the Performance of Professional Golfers |
| title_sort | effect of smartphone app use patterns on the performance of professional golfers |
| topic | golf smartphone applications performance handicap |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.678691/full |
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