Listening to music during a repeated sprint test improves performance and psychophysiological responses in healthy and physically active male adults

Table 2 Mean (SD) for rated perceived exertion (RPE) and feelings states scores recorded before and after the RSS (N = 19)

Variable	Time	No music	Preferred music during test	Preferred music during warm-up	p (eta-squared [ηp²])
Variable	Time	No music	Preferred music during test	Preferred music during warm-up	Main effect of condition	Main effect of time	Condition*time interaction
RPE (AU)	Pre	12.41 ± 1.97	11.82 ± 2.22	11.73 ± 2.43	0.11 (0.06)	< 0.001 (0.81)	0.39 (0.02)
RPE (AU)	Post	16.82 ± 1.53^¤	15.5 ± 1.34^¤	16.18 ± 1.40^¤	0.11 (0.06)	< 0.001 (0.81)	0.39 (0.02)
Feeling scale (AU)	Pre	2 ± 1.83	2.23 ± 2.27	2.136 ± 2.15	0.12 (0.06)	0.88 (0.003)	0.45 (0.03)
Feeling scale (AU)	Post	1.68 ± 1.17	2.82 ± 0.80	2 ± 1.27	0.12 (0.06)	0.88 (0.003)	0.45 (0.03)

Data presented as mean (± SD), with ANOVA output reporting as p value (partial eta squared effect size)
AU arbitrary units
^¤Significantly different between pre and post test for each condition (p < 0.05)

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