TY - JOUR
KW - Source of stress
KW - Referees and sport officials
KW - Soccer
KW - Psychological assessment
KW - Questionnaire
AU - I. Alonso-Arbiol
AU - F. Falcó
AU - M. López
AU - B. Ordaz
AU - A. Ramírez
AB - The aim of the present study was to elaborate a self-report questionnaire to identify Spanish soccer referees  sources of stress and to provide a tool for the detection of referees with high levels of stress. The Soccer Referee Stress Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 138 referees, and a principal component analysis with varimax rotation revealed a 5-factor solution that accounted for 65.7% of the variance. The final version of the test had a Cronbach s alpha of 0.88. The most important sources of stress were related to the referee s perceived competence and, to the referee-supervisor s rating of matches.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - The aim of the present study was to elaborate a self-report questionnaire to identify Spanish soccer referees  sources of stress and to provide a tool for the detection of referees with high levels of stress. The Soccer Referee Stress Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 138 referees, and a principal component analysis with varimax rotation revealed a 5-factor solution that accounted for 65.7% of the variance. The final version of the test had a Cronbach s alpha of 0.88. The most important sources of stress were related to the referee s perceived competence and, to the referee-supervisor s rating of matches.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2005
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 175
EP - 188
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Development of a questionnaire for the assessment of sources of stress in Spanish soccer referees
VL - 11
ER -