319��CTR-errors+0.490��Finger?strength+0.340��E70%z10/10+0.254��VO2ATArm?0.410��TEMP-ME+0.370��Technique then The canonical analysis was also useful in determining how a set of different characteristics (technical, physical and mental) affected two dependent variables Max OS and Max RP used in the study, thus giving the answer to the second research question. To make comparisons more efficient, eight characteristics were selected from each of the three sets of climbers�� mental, technical and physical attributes (Table 3). The first and most significant canonical correlations in the new sets of mental characteristics (personality traits, temperament, locus of control and tactics), technical characteristics (coordination and technique) and physical characteristics (somatic, flexibility, physical fitness and efficiency) were high, the canonical R being 0.
82, 0.81 and 0.79, respectively. All correlations were statistically significant (p<0.001). The total redundancy values for the three sets interpreted as average percentages of the variance in one set of variables that all canonical variables explained based on another set were differentiated. This means that in analysing climber��s performance (the Max OS and Max RP set) eight mental characteristics explained 41% of the variance, eight technical characteristics �C 53%, and eight physical characteristics �C 62%. Table 3 The results of canonical analysis for selected mental, technical and physical characteristics with respect to the dependent variables Max OS and Max RP The canonical analysis helped answer the third question too.
The first to be analysed were the sets of somatic and physical fitness characteristics and that of coordination and technique (Table 4, columns 2 and 3). The total canonical R was high (0.82) and statistically significant (p<0.001). The canonical roots in the right set (the vectors of physical characteristics) explained almost 32% of the variance in the left set of variables (technical characteristics). Reversely, the first set explained 29% of the variance. The results obtained from comparing the characteristics of personality, temperament, locus of control and tactics with the somatic and physical fitness characteristics (Table 4, columns 4 and 5) showed that the right set (mental characteristics) explained almost 30% of the variance in the left set (physical characteristics).
In the reverse situation, the rate of the explained variance declined to 25%. The total canonical R was both high (0.83) and statistically very significant (p<0.001). The sets of mental and technical characteristics were compared last (Tables 4, columns Anacetrapib 6 and 7). The total canonical R was similar to its values determined from the previous analyses (0.82) and also statistically very significant (p<0.001). The canonical roots of both the right set and the left set explained a similar amount of the variance �C 38%.