Definire la natura della relazione tra l’esperienza motoria e la performance sportiva: uno studio sulla self-efficacy in giovani atleti di pallacanestro = Defining the nature of the relationship between motor experience and sports performance: A study on self-efficacy in young basketball athletes.

The article is proposed as a reflection on the relationship between motor experience and sports performance, reconsidered beyond the boundaries of technicality and placed in an educational context such as to allow a deep understanding of the mechanisms underlying the organization of motor function in sports. Proposed as an original experimental design and with the aim to provide practical implications for training strategies, a sample of young basketball athletes were involved in the study. Specific measures of self-efficacy (SE) were analyzed, also using original indicators of selfprediction (SP) and self-perception (SJP), comparing them with a specific motor gesture, the squat jump (SJ).