Effects of Mental Fatigue on Basketball Decision-Making Performance

Forty-two male basketball players participated in a study investigating the effects of mental fatigue on sport decision-making. The dataset likely contains results from a Stroop task, a basketball-specific video-based decision-making task, and an Eriksen Flanker task, collected by author Yifan Hu. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-22.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between subjective fatigue ratings and decision reaction time based on mediation analysis results
• Compare decision accuracy and reaction time between higher-skilled and lower-skilled player groups based on group performance metrics
• Investigate the impact of mental fatigue induction on attentional control based on Flanker task conflict effect changes
• Validate mediation models for cognitive performance in sports based on bootstrap confidence intervals and residualized change-score analysis

Strengths

• Includes statistical results from repeated-measures analyses with specific F-values, p-values, and effect sizes (ηp²)
• Contains mediation analysis results with a reported indirect effect and 95% bootstrap confidence intervals
• Data underwent cleaning and robustness checks as mentioned in the methods

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Dataset is very small (10.7 KB), indicating limited scope and likely summary statistics rather than raw participant data

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Experimental study with 42 male basketball players completing cognitive and decision-making tasks.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 04:28:13; freshness should be verified