Table 2 Means and standard deviations of attentional variable scores and salivary C concentration (nmol/L) for both curricular and cognitively demanding PE lessons.
Curricular PE lesson | Cognitively demanding PE lesson | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Pre | Post | Δ | Pre | Post | Δ | ||||||||||||
Total number of items processed (score) | 390.00 | ± | 91.04 | 429.70 | ± | 97.70 | 39.70 | ± | 45.73 | 427.64 | ± | 99.49* | 441.04 | ± | 108.52 | 13.40 | ± | 46.46* |
Percentage of errors (score) | 3.01 | ± | 4.52 | 3.26 | ± | 5.42 | 0.25 | ± | 3.29 | 2.92 | ± | 6.05 | 3.66 | ± | 8.48 | 0.73 | ± | 6.29 |
Concentration performance (score) | 153.67 | ± | 45.44 | 169.68 | ± | 50.51 | 16.01 | ± | 19.10 | 171.04 | ± | 51.86* | 176.33 | ± | 54.57 | 5.30 | ± | 35.08* |
C (nmol/L) | 3.79 | ± | 2.75 | 3.53 | ± | 2.04 | − 0.26 | ± | 3.38 | 3.87 | ± | 2.83 | 3.21 | ± | 2.14 | − 0.66 | ± | 2.97 |
