Abstract

CALLE, Jesús  and  PINELO, Dora Beatríz.   Differential skills and personality factors In football referees of la paz city. Revista de Psicologia [online]. 2017, n.18, pp.59-74. ISSN 2223-3032.

Abstract This research focuses on the psychology of sport and especially in the psychology of sports arbitration. Its aim was to study and describe both the differential skills: spatial reasoning, verbal, and fitness and perceptual speed precision; the big five personality factors: responsibility, kindness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness of mind; as well as the relationship between the two variables in football referees of the city of La Paz, Bolivia. It considered important to investigate differential aptitudes and personality of these individuals for the role that referees meet in football; such as compliance and enforcement of the regulation, charging high sanctions, the time control of the party and others. The results do not permit accept the hypothesis in this research, and the null hypothesis was defined and selected. That is, there is no correlation between the variables: differential skills and years of professional experience.

Keywords : Sport psychology; referees; football; aptitudes; personality.

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