Abstract Referees play a central role in competitive sport. Particularly amateur sport, referees contribute significantly to making participation sport possible for the masses. However, considering that every referee’s career starts at grassroots level, it is very surprising there has been no research on personality traits of so far. The current state indicates an essential component requiremen...

To measure goal perspective in sport, reflected by Achievement Goal Theory [3], Duda & Nicholls [7] developed the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ), that comprises 13 items to assess athletes dispositional goal orientations. However, the Portuguese version of TEOSQp, was validated in several contexts of sport: young football players [4], sport athletes, recreational exerci...

S p.17 Monday 22th September 10h-10h45 Why a conference on Science and Practice of Sports Refereeing A Lack of Interconnectivity for Research on Sport Officials p. 18 11h-12h15 Cognitive and physiological constraints on referees' performance 1 Comparison between the match demands of elite and sub-elite Australian football umpires p.20 An examination of the relationship between decision making a...

Since becoming an Olympic medal sport, the sport of Taekwondo has been going through considerable transformation resulting in almost continual series changes to sport’s rules and subsequently interpretations those rules. This work’s focus is examine problems facing stakeholders education coaches referees specifically relation Oceania Region, provide some guidelines a more effective model for de...

Sporting culture often celebrates mental toughness and chides weakness, which can stigmatize health issues. While some sport organizations have prioritized addressing well-being, referees been ignored. Referees work in high-pressure environments; thus, the need to understand, destigmatize, normalize conversation around within referee community larger sporting system is important. Because preval...

The history of sport referees, judges, and officials, began with the first Olympic Games in the Antiquity. The Hellanodikai, the judges of the Greeks, had many roles including; selecting the athletes, supervising their training, coordinating the drawing lots, refereeing the competitions and judging and deciding on sanctions if it was required (Bagnall, Brodersen, Champion, Erskine, & Huebner, 2...

The influence of player gender on referees’ decision making was experimentally investigated. In Experiment 1, including 145 male handball referees, we investigated (a) the influence of referees’ level of expertise on their decisional biases against women and (b) the referees’ gender stereotypes. Results revealed that biases against women were powerful regardless of the referees’ level of expert...