An analysis on the job satisfactions levels of soccer referees

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of job satisfaction of soccer referees in terms of some keyvariables, such as gender, educational background, professional experience and etc. This study has beengenerated from the Turkish Football Referees of the central board of Referees in Turki...

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Published inTurkish journal of sport and exercise Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 31 - 36
Main Authors İlker Ozmutlu, Meric Eraslan, Murat Tekın, Selami Yuksek, Tonguc Mutlu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Selcuk University 01.11.2014
Subjects
futbol
hakem
i̇ş doyumu
job satisfaction; soccer; referee
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Summary:The purpose of this study is to determine the level of job satisfaction of soccer referees in terms of some keyvariables, such as gender, educational background, professional experience and etc. This study has beengenerated from the Turkish Football Referees of the central board of Referees in Turkish Football Federation. Inparticular, sample group of this study is mainly based on 8 Females and 82 Males, total 90 Referees in AnkaraRegion. In collection of data, firstly, the personal data form, which is prepared by an analyst, has beenimplemented, and then, in order to determine the level of job satisfaction, scale of “Minnesota SatisfactionQuestionnaire”, which was enhanced in 1967 and transcribed in Turkish by Gokcora at 1985, has been appliedto the referees. In analyzing and interpreting of this data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney U test,and Kruskal-Wallis test has been used as the variables in order to investigate the level of job satisfaction of thereferees. At the end of the analysis, a positive correlation between the level of job satisfaction and gender,educational background, professional experience and the ranking variance could not have been found.
ISSN:2147-5652