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. 2021 Jun 10;12:665508. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.665508

TABLE 3.

Correlations between studied variables in forty elite youth soccer players according to their maturity status (pre-PHV and post-PHV).

Whole Sample (N = 40)
IVI
EVI
KI
r (r2) rz r (r2) rz r (r2) rz μr (r2) μrz
CoD-15m –0.41** (0.17) 0.44 –0.66** (0.43) 0.78 –0.47** (0.22) 0.51 –0.51 (0.27) 0.58
CoDBall-15 m –0.30 (0.09) 0.31 –0.50** (0.25) 0.55 –0.68** (0.47) 0.83 –0.49 (0.27) 0.56
μr (r2) –0.36 (0.13) –0.58 (0.34) –0.58 (0.35) –0.50 (0.27)
μrz 0.38 0.66 0.67 0.57

Pre-PHV (n = 20)
IVI
EVI
KI
r (r2) rz r (r2) rz r (r2) rz μr (r2) μrz

CoD-15m –0.31 (0.10) 0.32 –0.29 (0.08) 0.30 –0.41 (0.17) 0.44 –0.34 (0.12) 0.35
CoDBall-15 m –0.26 (0.07) 0.27 –0.07 (0.01) 0.07 –0.73** (0.53) 0.93 –0.35 (0.20) 0.42
μr (r2) –0.29 (0.08) –0.18 (0.04) –0.57 (0.35) –0.34 (0.16)
μrz 0.30 0.18 0.69 0.38

Post-PHV (n = 20)
IVI
EVI
KI
r (r2) rz r (r2) rz r (r2) rz μr (r2) μrz

CoD-15m –0.55* (0.31) 0.62 –0.62** (0.39) 0.73 –0.52* (0.27) 0.58 –0.56 (0.32) 0.64
CoDBall-15 m –0.26 (0.02) 0.27 –0.55* (0.30) 0.62 –0.79** (0.63) 1.07 –0.53 (0.32) 0.65
μr (r2) –0.41 (0.17) –0.58 (0.34) –0.66 (0.45) –0.54 (0.32)
μrz 0.45 0.68 0.83 0.65

,not applicable; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; r, r-value; rz, rz-value;μ, Mean; r2, coefficient of determination which was calculated by squaring the r-value; IVI, internal visual imagery; EVI, external visual imagery; KI, kinesthetic imagery.