(School of Physical Education,Hunan University of Commerce,Changsha 410205,China) Abstract: In order to probe into football player’s self control ability and the role played by aerobic ability in such an ability, the authors recruited 15 football players and 15 non-athlete persons of the same age, used a non-sports char-acteristic stop signal for operation, measured their inhibitory control ability in a laboratory environment, then evalu-ated the aerobic ability of all the testees by means of PACER test, and found that the football players had a stop sig-nal reaction time shorter than that of the non-athlete persons, but action reaction time, error rate and failure inhibi-tion reaction time did not show group differences. The authors drew the following conclusions: even being taken away from the related sports scene, the football players still had a better inhibitory control function; group effect differences were mainly due to the adjustment of aerobic ability. Key words: sports psychology;executive control ability;aerobic ability;football player |