Differential personality profile of elite Spanish basketball referees

Personalidad y arbitraje de élite del baloncesto español

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/cpd.375641
Keywords: Keywords: Sports psychology; personality; NEO Personality Inventory; sports officiating.

Abstract

Differential personality profile of elite Spanish basketball referees

The aim of the present study was to find out if there is a differential personality profile at the Spanish basketball referees according to their performance level. We administered the NEO Revised Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1999) to 418 male referees by assigning them to two categories: the Successful Group (belonging to the ACB and LEB league competitions) and the Unsuccessful Group (belonging to the competitions of the regional Catalan Basketball Federation). After five seasons, we contacted again the referees of the unsuccessful group to make sure that they did not promote in their sports career and to ensure that the categories were not permeable. The comparison of both groups indicates that the referees who reach the elite display greater competence and assertiveness, are self-assured, efficient and organized, as well as dominant and with leadership skills. We suggest that those leading and organizing the training of sports referees should include in their programs activities promoting the skills -leadership and communication- of those who have already reached the elite.

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Montserrat Gomà-i-Freixanet, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Departament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut,

Facultat de Psicologia,

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,

Bellaterra 08193.

Tel: +34 93 581 38 54

Fax: +34 93 581 20 01

Josep Pla-Cortés, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Psicólogo del Deporte
Especializado en Psicología del Arbitraje y el Juicio Deportivo

Doctor por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Departament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut

Published
01-01-2020
How to Cite
Gomà-i-Freixanet, M., Pla-Cortés, J., & Avilés-Antón, Óscar. (2020). Differential personality profile of elite Spanish basketball referees: Personalidad y arbitraje de élite del baloncesto español. Sport Psychology Notebooks, 20(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.6018/cpd.375641
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Psicología del Deporte

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