Emotional response and its relationship to decision-making among football referees in Thi- Qar Governorate

الملخص

Emotional response is of great importance and plays a role in refining the competition process among referees and preparing them appropriately to overcome the negative psychological state that will accompany the referee from the beginning of the match. It highlights the importance of research in identifying the emotional response and its relationship to decision-making among football referees and working to develop the positive aspects and address the negative aspects. And providing accurate scientific information, which in turn affects the referee, so he enters the competition with the highest possible physical and psychological fitness to be able to withstand the pressures and events of the field.                                                                                   

The problem of the research lies in the exposure of some referees to psychological pressures that are difficult for them to face, so their reaction methods are negative, as the difficulty of dealing well with the stressful situation results in negative effects, which led the researcher to work to know the emotional response of football referees and its role and relationship to decision-making. Standing on a suitable and cohesive ground that pushes the sports referee to achieve an ideal and integrated performance.

The objectives of the research are to codify and identify the scale of emotional response and decision-making in football.                                                                     

And the results were

1-The emotional response scale and the decision-making scale that the researcher designed and codified and whose scientific conditions were met are capable of measuring the characteristic for which it was developed.

2-Football referees in Thi Qar Governorate have a high degree of emotional balance and also possess the ability to make decisions

3-There are significant differences between the emotional response and decision-making of football referees in Thi Qar Governorate.